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TIL: in 2011 33% of all US divorce filings contained the word “FACEBOOK”

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neZNP TIL Robin Williams called Steven Spielberg weekly while filming Schindler’s List to cheer him up. Since it was emotionally challenging for him to make such a movie.
R5rR4 TIL the male head of any Roman family possessed "ius vitae necisque," "the right of life and death," and could legally execute any of his children at any age.
MYn0 TIL Jon Burge, Chicago Police Comander, tortured black people for 30 years and wondered out loud if jury would “believe that bunch of niggers.” Only gets convicted of perjury after years of support by Fraternal Order of Police
R5b81 TIL that the song “Muskrat Love” was not originally by The Captain and Tennille. It was originally recorded by the band America, who are best known for the song A Horse With No Name.
vRVr TIL That Hartlepool F.C. have a monkey as their mascot after the town supposedly mistook one for a french spy and hung it