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TIL that before the 19th century, the Versailles was often extremely dirty. Women pulled up their skirts up to pee where they stood, while some men urinated in the middle of the royal chapel. Marie-Antoinette was once hit by human waste being thrown out the window as she walked through a courtyard.

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OdKX TIL A man was facing 20 years in prison after a pediatrician testified that the actor on a porn DVD he purchased was underage. The actor had to fly to US and testify she was 19 at the time in order to prove his innocence
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