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TIL that Stephen Fry was expelled from two schools and was imprisoned for three months for credit-card fraud. After studying for the entrance test, however, Fry was admitted to Cambridge University, where he met Emma Thompson and his future collaborator Hugh Laurie.

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70Px TIL a man was cleared of murder charges after appearing in outtakes of Curb Your Enthusiasm at a baseball game 20 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder
NXBx1 TIL That casino/real estate owner Steve Wynn was about to sell one of his Picasso portraits to someone but accidently put his elbow through the canvas when showing it to some guests reducing its value by $54 million.
oxY8 TIL that Iran has executed 4,000 people for being homosexual in the last 35 years, but also provides state funds for sex-change operations so that transsexuals can enter heterosexual relationships.
OGxM4 TIL of Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat woman who lived for two years, 8 months of those years alone, as a castaway on the uninhabited Wrangel Island. She survived by learning to hunt foxes, build boats, and sew parkas out of reindeer skin.
nba7 TIL that, in 2014, English YouTube star Zoella uploaded a picture to Instagram of a “random man & his dog” on the beach. The “random man” was Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour.