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TIL that in Germany, attempting to escape from the prison is completely legal — Getting yourself free is considered a basic human instinct.

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VMnKB TIL "Hit Me Baby One More Time" was written by a Swede who meant the chorus to mean "hit me up on the phone one more time" but mistranslated it
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