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TIL that Charles Manson declared Scientology was "too crazy!".

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oLg7 TIL a man in Charlotte, North Carolina spent $1,200 to convert his diesel car to run on vegetable oil. He was fined $1,000 by the state for not paying gasoline taxes, and told he would need to post a $2,500 bond before using the oil
Oowg TIL Charles Barkley was fined $10,000 for spitting on a little girl.
mx4np TIL a woman named Glenda Blackwell brought a scratch off lottery ticket to prove to her husband that buying lottery tickets was a waster of money and accidentally ended up winning $1 million.
K1VG TIL After the Haitian Slave revolt, France demanded the newly independent country compensate former plantation owners who had lost their ‘property’ to the tune of $21 Billion (inflation adjusted)
OoVZY TIL that a magnitude 15 earthquake on the Richter scale would destroy the planet.