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TIL Dana Carvey had heart-bypass that was done incorrectly. He was awarded $7.5 million for medical malpractice which he donated entirely to charity.

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lo1AN TIL of Katalin Karády a Hungarian actress in the '40s who was jailed, tortured and nearly beaten to death for allegedly spying and her movies and songs got banned. Later she emigrated to New York and opened a hat salon. When she was invited back to Hungary she didn't go but sent them a hat instead.
N7EK6 TIL That in In Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Ohio, idiots don’t have the right to vote.
Z8ara Berezniki, in Russia's Ural mountains, is slowly disappearing into the ground. The industrial city, with a population of over 150,000, was built on top of a salt mine. Since the 1980s, huge craters have ripped the soil apart, gradually swallowing factories and offices, demolishing a school and tearing houses apart.
QJlN6 TIL that, in 1964, a group of college students used garden spades to tunnel under the Berlin Wall into East Berlin, allowing 57 people to escape to the West. The students moved enough dirt to fill four eighteen-wheeler big rigs; one of them went on to design tunnels professionally.
EgnYo TIL, in 1566, A heavily pregnant Mary, Queen of Scotts, was held up at gunpoint, as her Secretary (David Rizzio), was dragged away from her and stabbed to death by her Husband and his co-conspirators, forcing Mary to witness the execution as he begged the Queen to save him.