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TIL Netherlands is so safe that jails are being closed due to the lack of criminals.

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geK9 TIL in the 1980’s, a one letter typo cost the Yellow Pages $10 million when they misprinted a travel agency’s advertisement for ‘exotic vacations" as “erotic vacations”