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TIL Charles Barkley was fined $10,000 for spitting on a little girl.

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5VlBP TIL that the Watergate scandal began when burglars acting on behalf of the Nixon administration broke into Democratic campaign headquarters. They were caught because their lookout (posted in a hotel next door) was watching "Attack of the Puppet People" on TV and didn't notice the police arriving.
9Yl8G TIL of St. Maria Skobtsova, an ex-revolutionary, twice married, smoking nun that helped forge baptismal certificates for Parisian Jews; she was discovered by the Gestapo, and died at Ravensbruck on Holy Saturday, 1945.
0w5kj TIL that Apollo 12 was an exercise in precision landing targeting, and succeeded in landing within walking distance of the Surveyor-3 probe that was launched a few years earlier.
OGYZY TIL thanks to his cameos Stan Lee currently holds the record for appearing in movies with the overall top grossing box office sales
b4O0 TIL After JFK was assassinated, there was a brief scuffle between local and federal authorities when the President’s security detail wasn’t allowed to remove his body from the hospital. It ended when the Secret Service agents put the local officials against the wall at gunpoint.