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TIL that “alibi” is latin for “elsewhere”

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P1LAw TIL smoking is still allowed in bars in Indiana
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1QEV TIL when Gene Wilder stabbed himself with a scalpel in “Young Frankenstein” it wasn’t in the script; he did it for real and kept going.
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