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TIL Pakistan sends transgender tax collectors to embarrass those who evade taxes.

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168vD TIL Sichuan salt wells are 2,250 old. As demand for salt grew, deeper wells were needed. Sometimes, they hit natural gas pockets resulting in explosions. They learnt to harness it with bamboo tubes and mud. Gas was then used to cook the brine to produce salt crystals faster.
EGbV TIL that the Queen owns all unmarked swans in open water and that she is the “officially appointed ‘Swan Keeper’ of England.”
jPDj TIL there are plants that, when eaten by herbivores, release chemicals to call in predators.
gNe9 TIL “Bart Gets An F” is the highest rated episode of The Simpsons. 33.6 million viewers tuned in during its original airing on October 11, 1990.
l555 TIL Psychologist Timothy Leary designed tests given to prisoners. After being convicted of drug crimes, he answered his tests in such a way that he was assigned to work as a gardener at a low-security prison from which he escaped