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TIL the late actor Roddy McDowall was raided by the FBI in 1974 for owning hundreds of illegal film prints. To avoid being criminally charged himself, he ratted out other celebrities who had purchased films from bootleggers.

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v1B5L TIL: After Brutus helped kill Caesar, he minted coins celebrating the murder.
QNv6X TIL 80 years ago this week, there was an assassination attempt on Hitler. He survived, and the only injury was to his ear.
GAxo7 TIL that the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic holds the bones of 40,000–70,000 people, and they’ve been turned into art. We’re talking bone chandeliers (with every type of human bone), garlands of skulls, and bell-shaped bone mounds in every corner.
yKn8 TIL that 19 “states have imposed some kind of fence against community broadband. Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas have established a full ban.”
Rmea TIL that during the first battle of the American Civil War, hundreds of civilians from Washington DC brought picnic baskets and came to watch the battle, sure the Union would easily win. The Union lost, and the civilians were caught in the retreat of the Northern army.