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TIL that the actress that played Talisa Maegyr in Game of Thrones is the granddaughter of famous English actor Charlie Chaplin.

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Q9j6 TIL when Casey Anthony’s computer was investigated by “computer experts”, they found 17 vague searches on Internet Explorer suggesting she killed someone, which wasn’t enough to be found guilty. Later they discovered Casey used Firefox, overlooking 1,200 searches including “fool-proof suffocation”
WyEX TIL Snooki from Jersey Shore was paid $32,000 to speak at Rutgers University. Some students were upset and thought the money could have gone to a better speaker.
7GdP TIL the first mutiny in space occurred in 1974 aboard the Skylab 4 (x-post r/space)
R7JN6 TIL about the Southern Bread Riots. Mostly women, protesting huge surges in food costs during the Civil War, rioted in Richmond, VA with chants of "bread or blood!" Food prices had soared to prices ten times higher than normal in many instances. Among the items stolen was 500 lbs of bacon.
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