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TIL Sean Connery was once stopped for speeding by an officer named Sergeant James Bond

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NKBQ TIL that in response to South Park satirising Scientology, Scientologists put out a statement on behalf of Isaac Hayes (Who plays the character Chef and is a Scientologist) quitting the show, taking advantage of him being barely functional and unable to talk due to a stroke.
oRrMr TIL that after the St Scholastica Day riots in Oxford in 1355, an annual penance of one penny per scholar killed was imposed on the townsfolk. The practice was not dropped until 1825.
vBB TIL we have the technology to display small holograms very similar to the ones in Star Wars but full-color, although it is not as portable as it is in the movie.
lQ4V TIL that the Catholic church objected Lightning rods until a gunpowder explosion in Brescia caused by a lightning strike killed 3000.
VBY78 TIL that there was at least one Kennedy family member in federal elective office from 1947, when John F. Kennedy became a member of Congress from Massachusetts, until 2011 when Patrick J. Kennedy II retired as a member of Congress from Rhode Island.