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69d0w TIL of the six men that played The Three Stooges... Moe, Curly, and Shemp (Howard) were real life brothers.
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R5poj TIL that English poet Robert Southey was expelled from Westminster School for writing an article attributing the invention of flogging to the Devil.
GYGK1 TIL In the ancient Roman comedic play "The Mother-in-Law," a husband falsely accuses his new wife of infidelity after she gives birth mere months into marriage. A stolen ring reveals he assaulted his future wife in a dark street before they met, and is in fact the father of the child.
myEv TIL that in 2013 a 200-year-old law was removed in Paris that forbid women from wearing pants.