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TIL Dave Foley can’t return to Canada without facing imprisonment due to unpaid child support.

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ngOP TIL that in 1969 Mick Jagger wrote to artist M.C. Escher asking him to provide an image for a Rolling Stones album cover. Escher turned him down. He’d never heard of the Stones. He’d never heard of Jagger and he objected to Jagger addressing him by his first name.
NXrRP TIL Notre Dame Cathedral's landmark spire, being restored after the fire 4 years ago, new, 60' tall "heart of the spire", is made from centuries old oak trees.
78D5x TIL That in the 1980s, a man with severe OCD shot himself in the head in an attempt to commit suicide. Instead of killing him, the bullet destroyed the part of his brain responsible for his OCD, and he went on to become a straight-A college student five years later.
78AOO TIL that the opening scene of Jeepers Creepers is based on the true story of killer Dennis Depue.
7a17 TIL Aborigines were classed as wildlife, not humans, by the Australian government until 1967!