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TIL the trailer for “Nymphomaniac”, which included ‘full-frontal fellatio’, was accidentally in theaters to children seeing the PG-rated animation “Frozen”

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GAvv1 TIL when Prince Charles visited Sydney, a man fired blank shots at him as protest. Personal bravery of Prince in the incident was remarked as "cool as a cucumber".
won7o TIL the perpetrator of the My Lai massacre had a life sentence of hard labor commuted to 3 years house arrest by President Nixon.
7rbMZ TIL Francis Tumblety, a man suspected to be Jack the Ripper, was also arrested for being allegedly complicit in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
xVG75 TIL modern day numerals and Algebra were introduced by Fibonacci from a mathematical treatise in currently 'lost' library in Baghdad that dates back to 13th century.
NE4P TIL Anthropologists believe cats approached humans on their own terms 12,000 years ago. The first agricultural societies stored food that attracted mice, the cats decreased the rodent population by eating them, and a mutual relationship began.