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TIL a man broke out of jail because he was fed up with the loud rap music being played ‘day and night’ on his wing

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X5N6 TIL Germany mandates all drivers to come to the rescue of an accident victim unless there is already an ambulance present. “If there is an accident, a driver is obliged to stop and help, whenever and to the degree to which it is possible”
DkOV TIL that Anonymous chose the Guy Fawkes mask out of practicality and not for its meaning; it was the only mask readily available worldwide for their 2008 protest against Scientology.
R7ly7 TIL about the El Cazador shipwreck, a single ship carrying 19 tons of Spanish silver sunk in 1784, causing Spain to give up Louisiana to France. Had this ship not sunk, the Louisiana Purchase never would have happened.
LQ54p TIL the Phantom time Conspiracy theory claims the time period AD 614 to 911 never existed. The Theory claims these extra 300 years of History were fabricated in the middle ages to legitimise Otto's claim over the Holy Roman Empire. According to the theory we should be living in the year 1726.
QJ9vk TIL that Bob Barker, who hosted "The Price is Right," trained as a Navy fighter pilot in WW2, but wasn't sent to the fleet in time to fight. He once said: "I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered. That was the end of World War II."