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TIL in 1945, Barry Fitzgerald accidentally decapitated his Oscar for Best Supporting Actor while using it to practice his golf swing. The statute was particularly vulnerable because it was made of plaster and painted gold due to the shortage of metal during WWII.

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PYdLV TIL it is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom to intentionally drive through a puddle and splash someone, which carries fines of up to £5000 (about US$6500)
X0v6E TIL China’s Hongzhi Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only had 1 wife and refused to have concubines after his mother was murdered by one of his father’s consorts.
PGpE TIL that when David Copperfield and his assistants were held up at gunpoint, he used sleight of hand to conceal his possessions from the robber
g7W7 TIL that when Marie Curie’s body was exhumed it was found that her radium levels were below the acceptable limit. She likely got cancer from her early work in the military, not from her pioneering research into radioactivity.
yjdJ TIL there is a town in the Netherlands with no roads. Only canals, sidewalks, and bike paths.