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TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name

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46aN TIL that disabled citizens in Holland can receive stipends from the government in order to pay for sexual relations with prostitutes up to 12 times a year.
neNvB TIL Pill bugs, AKA (Roly polies, Potato bugs, etc), are not insects, but are closely related to shrimp and other crustaceans. They also have gills.
VMeZ8 TIL in the Indian city of Gwalior, you can get a gun license by donating a few blankets to cows
Q99p TIL while directing Jurassic Park, when Spielberg saw CGI of T. rex, he said to stop motion animator Phil Tippett , “You’re out of a job,” to which Tippett replied, “Don’t you mean extinct?”. Spielberg later incorporated this dialogue into the movie
gMy1X TIL: The amount of radioactive cesium that was leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.