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TIL In Germany you can be imprisoned for one year for insulting someone in public

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pWl8 TIL that French grammarian Dominique Bouhours’s last words are “I am about to – or I am going to – die: either expression is correct.”
Jork TIL that snakes kill 50,000 people per Year compared to only 10-25 that sharks do.
e0OJ5 TIL about chain boats. The boats traveled along a chain submerged in a river and pulled barges to transport goods.
EZ1p TIL A Gurkha Soldier of the Indian Army single handedly fought off 40 armed bandits with his knife killing 3 and injuring 8 to save a girl from getting raped during a train robbery in India
5DwB TIL less than two years after getting fired from SNL, Norm Macdonald returned as a host and went on to ridicule the show during the opening monologue.