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TIL in 2007, a prostitute was held at gunpoint and raped by a prospective client and his buddy after the two refused to pay prior to a prearranged transaction. The Judge in the case ruled the crime as only “theft of services”.

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ve5R TIL Yu Pengnian gave up his entire $1B+ fortune to charity. When some said it was “unnatural” for him to leave none for his family, he replied, “If my children are competent, they don’t need my money. If they’re not, leaving them a lot of money is only doing them harm.”
b7x7 TIL that during the filming of the Bond film, “Never Say Never Again,” Sean Connery angered his martial arts instructor so much that he broke Connery’s wrist. The instructor was Steven Seagal.
neZR9 TIL that nipple piercings were a fad during the Victorian era
veLr TIL letters sent to London Newspapers by Jack The Ripper had a sample of saliva from their stamps tested in 2006. The results seemed to point to the sender of the letters being a woman.
VMlaZ TIL During World War 2, morale among the British Army (in desert campaigns) was directly proportional to the supply of tea that they had. This was due to them brewing it all the time in order to drink the foul-tasting water they were supplied with, as it came from fuel cans.