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TIL Most people have a tendency to underestimate the severity of potential punishments, which can make it difficult to effectively deter crimes

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Z8a9Y TIL It is possible to take a 10 hour train ride to a remote First Nations community in northern Quebec, Canada for just $175. The line is native owned with 80% aboriginal employees
J1aYm TIL Most vinegar you get on your food in fish and chip shops in the UK is fake vinegar. It isn't legally vinegar and can't legally be called vinegar. It is technically a non brewed condiment. Due to being fake vinegar, its actually accidentally halal and vegan friendly
wLyD6 TIL Europeans brought deadly viruses and bacteria, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera, for which Native Americans had no immunity
oBdV7 TIL about Hans Huber, a paper mill owner who refused to destroy the member records of the Nazi Party, hiding them instead to hand them over to the US after the war
X0M7E TIL of the Petticoat Affair, where the wives of POTUS Andrew Jackson's Cabinet conspired to socially ostracise the War Secretary's wife due to a controversy around her marriage. This rattled and led to the resignation of the entire cabinet.