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TIL that Horatio Alger, whose aspirational and highly popular stories usually featured a poor boy being taken under the wing of an older man, was charged with "the abominable and revolting crime of gross familiarity with boys" as a young minister. He did not contest the charges and left town.

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M7KLB TIL that Neapolitan pizza originated in Italy. Since 2004, Neapolitan pizza has been required by Italian law to have wheat flour, flour yeast, peeled tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, sea salt, and olive oil in order to qualify as pizza.
Denr TIL The original script of Braveheart had the Irish fighting the Scottish, which was historically accurate. The script had to be changed because the Irish and Scottish extras refused to fight each other.
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