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TIL Hugh Hefner was tried on obscenity charges in Chicago in 1963, but the jury was hung.

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mxa4O TIL that Edward Rulloff, a 19th-century serial killer, doctor, philologist, and inventor, was deemed so intelligent that even after his conviction for murder, some believed he was too valuable to be hanged. Even Mark Twain jokingly offered to find a replacement to take his place at the gallows.
PYDEg TIL Tsar Nicholas II of Russia had a chinese dragoon tattoo he got on a trip to Japan.
OGLka TIL that the Pink Fairy Armadillo is the smallest species of armadillo, and is preyed on by domestic cats and dogs, as well as wild boars.
Kl66 TIL that Sir Patrick Stewart at first disapproved of Galaxy Quest, because it made fun of Star Trek; until Jonathan Frakes “Riker” convinced Stewart to see it, after which Stewart described the movie as “Brilliant… No one laughed louder or longer in the cinema than I did.”
NXMM6 TIL 15,498 dams across the United States are characterized as high hazard, meaning the loss of at least one human life is likely if the dam were to fail.