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TIL that each year the 25 best high school students of Italy get invited to the president's palace in Rome to be personally awarded a medal by the president of Italy for their good grades

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WGgB TIL that in 1982, while wearing his future wife Sharon’s dress, Ozzy Osbourne drunkenly urinated on a cenotaph erected in honour of those who died at the Alamo in Texas. He was arrested and subsequently banned from the city of San Antonio for 10 years.
gAYb TIL: “The film that killed John Wayne”, The Conqueror was shot downwind from the main site for Atomic Testing. of a crew of 200, 91 had died from cancer within 18 years, including The Duke.
KYdkJ TIL moles can shrink their brains in the winter
GX77 TIL that, directly after he delivered this speech on FOX, Judge Napolitano was fired.
9ww0Q TIL that the first person to break the sound barrier wasn't Chuck Yeager. That record belongs to Nazi test pilot Lothar Sieber, who crashed his rocket powered (partially) wooden aircraft into the ground at just over Mach 1 in 1945.