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TIL During the Trial of Joan of Arc, the prosecution, headed by Pierre Cauchon, sent an agent to France to collect dirt on her life in her home village. Cauchon was enraged when the agent "had found nothing concerning Joan that he would not have liked to find about his own sister".

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rNy6o TIL the 1971 film "Wake In Fright" follows a man stranded in an isolated outback town whose residents are consumed by binge drinking and gambling. During the film's early screening in Sydney, an offended viewer shouted, "That's not us!" One of the actors yelled back "Sit down, mate. It is us."
QJ1jk TIL that mammoths were known to indigenous Ugric peoples before Europeans, but they conceived of it as a water spirit or a giant burrowing rodent. The word mammoth even comes from an Ugric term meaning "earth horn"
rRbx TIL that of the women nominated for Best Comedy Actress, three of them have played Liz Lemon (Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus)
GjXN TIL In 1983 there was a Japanese made Atari game called Lover Boy. You play a naked man chasing women around a Pac-man style maze, avoiding the police. If you catch the women you must bring her to orgasm before she can escape. The game was later banned
Jym4 TIL a patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder who was blind for 15 years began regaining vision after psychotherapy. When a personality with vision was dominant the electrical activity in the visual cortex was normal. A blind personality would shut the visual cortex of their brain off.