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TIL that when Alfred Hitchcock was a boy his father sent him to the police with a letter. When the Sherrif read the letter he put young Alfred in jail for ten minutes. When he released him he said" this is what happens to bad people.“ From then on Hitchcock was afraid of cops and would never drive.

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loJr TIL Mozart composed a song called “Lick Me in the Ass”.
xk65 TIL Pepsi ran an advertisement promising a Harrier jet to anyone who collected 7,000,000 Pepsi Points, a gag that backfired when a participant attempted to take advantage of the ability to buy additional points for 10 cents each to claim a jet for $700,000.
0kkN TIL that all of the six remaining William Shakespeare signatures have different spelling
P1Mn TIL Enigma (German WWII encryption) was broken in part because operators used guessable passcodes, including letter repeats, adjacent key letters, four letter German names, and obscenities.
VLrm TIL Ewan Mcgregor’s brother was an RAF pilot with the call sign “Obi Two”