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TIL that Ozzy Osborne was arrested for urinating on the Alamo in 1982. When the arresting officer asked “Sir, how would you feel if I urinated on Buckingham Palace?” Ozzy replied “I wouldn’t mind – I’ve done that as well!”.

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R7VNa TIL of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery by travelling openly from Macon, Georgia to Boston. Ellen, who was light skinned, dressed as a man with a sling to hide the fact that she could not write and passed as William's slave owner. Eventually, they fled to Liverpool, England.
xGJk TIL Judge Denny Chin received no letters of support for Bernie Madoff’s character, and chose to sentence him to the maximum sentence of 150 years
KY8Z4 TIL that the 7ft 2in actor who played the Predator and Harry, from Harry and the Henderson’s died from AIDS because of a HIV infected blood transfusion he received from a car accident.
0wRAy TIL June 2008, Australian Ian Usher put his “entire life” up for auction. The auction included his 3-bedroom home in Perth, his belongings, and introductions to his friends. His employer offered the successful bidder a trial run at Ian’s job, which could result in the bidder’s permanent employment.
4wE6 TIL: In the 1980s, when the Navy found out about the slang term “Friend of Dorothy”, which gay men used for secretly identifying each other, they launched an enormous witch hunt, as they thought there was actually a woman named Dorothy who ran a massive underground homosexual military personnel