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TIL Squatting is legal in Belgium

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XEPoD TIL about George and Otto, a ventriloquist act. After performing at the Adult Video Awards ceremony, they were asked not to come back, their act was too offensive. One of the first George dummies was destroyed after it got into an argument which led to the puppet being attacked with a knife.
nAad TIL of Donald Crowhurst who in 1968 entered an around the world yacht race, he abandoned the race early on but continued to report false positions in an attempt to make it appear as if he was still competing and ultimately went insane and killed himself
17d TIL Michael Jackson cast real gang members for the Beat It music video and reformed them in the process
oBvLo TIL there is a "Robot Scientist" named Adam - in 2009, "Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators"
ADvb4 TIL Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's mother, died a day after Carrie Fisher's death.