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TIL in 2019 a pair of knickers from Hitler's wife Eva Braun sold for £3,700

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Oo4eY TIL in the 80s an up and coming comic, Kenny Moore, got arrested immediately following a show for destroying a heckler in the head with a guitar
4O85 TIL - Universities get ‘Kickbacks’ from publishers for requiring their students to purchase textbooks
6EVKm TIL that a dead pope once got put on trial in the year 897. They dug up Pope Formosus, propped his corpse up on a throne and they actually asked the fucker questions and a Deacon answered on behalf of him. And they found him guilty of perjury.
7rjL TIL that it is still possible to lease a rotary phone from AT&T