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TIL: Canada created a $1,000,000 Coin That Is Usable.

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YpZ1A TIL that when the very famous mime Jean-Gaspard Duburau (creator of the modern Pierrot) was accused of murder in 1836, hundreds of Parisians came to the courthouse. Not for the trial itself but just to finally hear the voice of the mime.
Ap4l TIL In the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, 11 athletes were sent home after cheating their way into favorable classes. At the Sydney games in 2000, the Spanish mentally handicapped basketball team won the gold medal. It later turned out that 10 players were completely healthy
J1aQl TIL: Shia LeBeouf blatantly plagiarized an authors work, never credited him, and never apologized, for his short film HowardCantour.com
9wK6m TIL that there is an urban legend that the British Board of Film Classification would reject any film which contained a penis which looked more erect than the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland
RdN7 TIL the farthest distance into space humans have traveled was reached during the Apollo 13 emergency.