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TIL Jack Nicholson was charged with assault and vandalism after bashing in a car roof/windshield during a road rage incident. Charges were dropped after he wrote a check for 500K. Two years later he was sued for breaking a woman's breast implant, and another for assault on a woman he bribed for sex.

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GY08j TIL that after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country code top-level domain for Montenegro officially changed in 2007 from .yu to .me.
x67Jg TIL that a man in 1990 jumped into the chimpanzee enclosure to save a drowning chimp. Are there other similar stories where people have jumped into an animal enclosure to save an animal?
v1aQx TIL that Christoper Robin, the kid wich teddy bear inspired the Winnie the Pooh stories, was credited with killing 28 Wehrmacht soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge.
NXBpM TIL in 2018, a Belgian priest received a one month sentence for failing to prevent a suicide. The victim had made it clear that he did not want his wife to be alerted, which the priest complied with. A court ruled he should've alerted his wife regardless.
rNOV4 TIL of "Frites by Idaho", a fragrance that smelled like french fries. The Idaho Potato Commission released it on Valentine's Day 2022 and it cost $1.89