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

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R7Z7j TIL Culhuacan king allowed a small migrant Aztec tribe, the Mexica, to settle on his lands. 24 years later they sought marriage with the Culhuacan princess. Rather than marry her, the Mexica sacrificed her, then invited her father to a banquet where a priest wore her flayed skin as a garment.
4noa TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, updated his Harvard University alumni listing to include his 8 life sentences as “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner.”
1ppX TIL Daft Punk were admitted into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and were individually awarded the rank of Chevalier, or knight.
7Dkx TIL By the mid-1990s Jean Claude Van Damme developed a cocaine habit, on which he spent up to $10,000 a week, and consuming up to 10 grams per day by 1996.
gMnaX TIL the Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. On March 11, 2011, one of the seismometers detected an 8.9 magnitude earthquake 12 seconds before it hit and sent a stop signal to 33 trains. As a result, only one bullet train derailed that day.