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TIL It is illegal to tickle a female in Virginia

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0wNbL TIL that visitors to the Sistine Chapel are barred from taking any photos of the frescoes painted by Michelangelo. This is due to a Japanese company owning the copyright to all of the images within the building, which they won via an auction held to help pay for the paintings' restoration.
nyvd TIL Bruce Willis dropped out of the Expendables 3 because he wanted 4 million dollars instead of 3 million, for four days of work.
b6Wg4 TIL Melissa McCarthy based her “Bridesmaids” character on The Food Network’s Guy Fieri. She even tried to convince the producers to let her wear short, white, spiky hair- but they denied that request, determining that as a bridge too far for the similarities.
97l6 TIL many American prisoners have to pay for their own winter clothes, medical care, and other basic necessities, despite only having available jobs which pay cents per hour.
Br90d TIL that in 1965 the Roman Catholic Church, under Pope Paul VI issued the declaration "Nostra Aetate" which repudiated the theological position of "Jewish Deicide" which claims that all Jewish people, past, present, and future share an inherited guilt for the Crucifixion and murder of Jesus Christ.