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TIL Crispin Glover sued the producers of Back To The Future 2 on grounds they used his likeness without permission and not having paid for reuse of footage from the original film. This led to clauses which state producers are not allowed to reproduce the likeness of other actors.

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a84rM TIL that after filing a lawsuit for assault against UFC fighter Conor McGregor in 2022, which left her with a broken arm, a Dublin woman had her car set ablaze outside of her home, and later, had a brick thrown through her window. The woman subsequently dropped her suit against Conor McGregor
dvpd TIL in 1994, American Michael Fay was sentenced to caning in Singapore for theft and vandalism. Caning is a routine sentence in Singapore, but its unfamiliarity to Americans created a backlash. The number of strokes in Fay’s sentence was reduced from 6 to 4 after U.S. officials requested leniency
7bNZ TIL that an American tourist believed that he was taking part in a completely legal goat-burning tradition when he burned down a giant version of a traditional Swedish Yule Goat figure made of straw. He spent 18 days in jail and was fined 100,000 SEK (11, 785 USD)
MenDb TIL that Dan Grimaldi, who is best known for playing Patsy Parisi on "The Sopranos", teaches in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Kingsborough Community College, as he has degrees in mathematics, operations research and data processing
GXyQ TIL that when the last woolly mammoths died out, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old