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TIL that Sacha Baron Cohen, known for playing brainless idiots, has a degree in history from the University of Cambridge

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awD5M TIL 25 years ago, a man began transforming his home village in India from one being destroyed by alcoholism and gambling to one obsessed with sobriety and chess. He started coaching people for free and now, of the 6,000 people in the village, at least 70% can play the game.
4XAJo TIL Under France’s stringent privacy laws, parents can face penalties as severe as a year in prison and fines up to of €45,000 (£35,000) if convicted of publicizing intimate details of the private lives of their children without their consent.
OjWY TIL At the 2002 winter Olympics, an Australian went from last place to winning the gold medal in speed skating after every other skater crashed on the last corner.
b6rdN TIL that in 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni famously canned 90 tins of his own feces, titled them "Artist's Shit," and sold them at the price of their equivalent weight in gold.
p8EKe TIL by the late 90s the buses in Belgrade were in such bad condition that one passenger died after falling through the rusted floor of a bus and being crushed by a wheel.