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TIL that German law imposes a duty upon everyone to provide aid or assistance to people who are injured. Three people were prosecuted and fined for failing to provide assistance to a man who collapsed in a bank and later died.

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OM7g TIL that in 1835 Richard Lawrence attempted to assassinate President Andrew Jackson. When both of his pistols misfired, Jackson proceeded to beat Lawrence with his cane, and was then aided by Davy Crockett.
yNXp TIL Elvis Costello was so appalled by the price his label set for a 2011 box set of his that he told all his fans not to buy it.
196W TIL the most common reason Japanese people wear face masks is to protect us from THEIR germs. Not from other people’s.
Eo57 TIL Michael Diamond of the Beastie Boys interviewed “Weird Al” in 1996 and had Spike Jonze (in a neck brace) repeatedly interrupt the interview posing as a crazed fan, and arranged for Yoko Ono to walk by just as Al was talking about being denied permission to parody Beatles songs.
epEJE TIL the first commercial airplane crash that killed more than 100 people happened in 1956 over the Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 hit a Lockheed Super Constellation and crashed into a ravine slope at over 480 mph, while the Lockheed disintegrated into a cliff. All 128 people on the planes died.