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TIL Pope Julius II was infamous for getting away with reckless actions without any backlash. He once entered the city of Perugia unarmed, and the local ruler, who had an army, surrendered the city to him and fled. Shocked at the outcome, N.Machiavelli suggested he should have just killed the Pope

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6EQvW TIL that a rancher in Oregon named Bill Brown would often write checks on any paper available. This often included soup can labels and newspaper margins. As he was rich and known for this, the banks would cash the checks without question.
dow8 TIL that the popularity of the SNES caught the attention of the Yakuza, prompting Nintendo to ship the consoles at night to prevent theft.
XEGnE TIL: (US) The purpose of giving a convict multiple sentences to be run concurrently is that they have to appeal each sentence separately. If they are exonerated of 1 out of 3 life sentences, they will still serve the other 2 life sentences.
Yprlx TIL The first PC game mod was entitled “Castle Smurfenstein”; a parody mod in the early 80s for Castle Wolfenstein which replaced enemy Nazi soldiers with Smurfs
Oo8Za TIL an author was angered by a negative online review of his book, so he tracked down the person who wrote the review, travelled to Scotland where she lived, and hit her over the head with a wine bottle