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TIL that a 68-year-old inmate in Malta was fined €800 for telling the former prisons director and two guards to “kiss my balls”, but he appealed the sentence and won

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5R0p TIL that an Apollo astronaut lost his wedding ring during his trip to the moon… and found it again during a spacewalk.
Dxyp TIL if John Belushi backed out of Animal House, Meat Loaf was cast to replace him
jNmJa TIL the practice of “topping out”, a ceremony symbolizing the completion of a building or its skeleton, dates back over a thousand years and is celebrated worldwide.
W7XJY TIL about sugar alcohols --a component that is now everywhere and cannot be properly digested by humans, hence can cause several gut and digestive issues
kEl1 TIL in 1986, Saddam Hussein built Iraq’s largest dam. He decided to call it “Saddam”