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TIL prominent "sovereign citizen" David Wynn Miller believed he developed an infallible form of legal syntax that could easily prove people's innocence. In every instance of its use in court it has been described as complete nonsense.

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6E7Y7 TIL That Gert Fröbe, the actor who played Goldfinger in the eponymous Bond film, saved two Jews during World War 2. He was a former Nazi Party member, and Israel banned his films after this became known. But when one of the Jews he saved spoke up for him, they rescinded the ban.
Bg6rK TIL - Jimmer Ferdette is on the USA Men's 3-on-3 Olympic Basketball team.
E5QX TIL Google owns several domains which are common misspellings of “google.com”, such as “gooogle.com”, “gogle.com”, “googlr.com”, and more. They also own the domain “466453.com”, which, when dialed on a phone, is equivalent to the spelling of “google.com”.
a8LjA TIL that the Canadian city of Lloydminster is a shared city on the border between two provinces, having a single local government despite residents paying taxes to different provincial governments
Oobng TIL Michael Keaton was originally considered for the role of Dr. Jack Shepherd in 'Lost', and he was going to be killed off at the end of the pilot episode