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TIL in the 1970s Playboy published nude photos of a 10-year old Brooke Shields in one of their publications. Brooke tried to take the photographer to court but they deemed the photos were “Art”.

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0QkN TIL the False Positive Paradox describes a situation where a “highly accurate” test is worthless if the testing condition is rare enough. Example: If 10 people in a city of 20 million are “bad guys” and a surveillance program identifies them with 99% accuracy, then 99.995% of positives will be false
VdvD TIL in 2011, a man died after being stabbed in the leg at an illegal cockfight. The murderer was one of the birds, which had the knife attached to one of its limbs.
oBY1R TIL that upon hearing of the Teutoburg incident (9 CE) a.k.a the Varian Disaster, where three whole legions were wiped in an ambush by Germanic tribes, Emperor Augustus was so shaken that he stood butting his head against the walls of his palace shouting 'Quintilius Varus, give me back my legions'
wm7E TIL since male ejaculation is a spinal reflex, it can be completed without the brain.
8ePma TIL that the famous "Here's Johnny" line from The Shining was copied from The Johnny Carson Show. Jack Nicholson improvised the line and Stanley Kubrick almost used a different take as he didn't get the reference, having been living in England