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

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74oX TIL to get revenge on fellow Boy Scouts who bullied him, a Tokyo resident mailed more than 500 boxes of soggy, smelly garbage including old underwear and rotten tea leaves to his tormentors, writing a random destination as the address with the bully’s return address in order to escape detection.
pj8A TIL A California teenager traded up an old phone on Craigslist for different items until he eventually acquired a Porsche
KOE86 TIL of Operation Moolah, a 1953 USAF effort to obtain a combat capable Soviet MiG-15 jet by rewarding any defecting Communist pilot 100k cash. The person who won it didn't even know it was being offered.
Me5WA TIL the monument in front of the tomb of Wu Zetian, China's only female monarch, has no inscriptions. Among the many explanations given: she saw her great achievements as indescribable; she didn't want the scholars to smear her name; or as a Buddhist, she considered life and death to be meaningless
x6OBw TIL That against the almost universal cliche, xxxx doesn't grow on Trees, Oxygen does actually 'grow' on trees, although the bulk on Earth's oxygen is produced in other ways.