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TIL 70% of celullar network traffic in Bangladesh is missed calls

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g0w7 TIL in 2001 Florida passed a law requiring single mothers to publish their full names and physical descriptions in a newspaper along with a list of the last 5 men they’d had sex with before they could put children up for adoption
X07mP TIL In he aftermath of Ramsses III's assassination, 28 people were executed on the spot after found guilty of organising the plot, 10 people were forced to commit suicide, 4 people, including two of the judges had their nose and ears cut off and one court official was issued a stern verbal warning
7Elr TIL A man robbed a bank by poisoning the staff with cyanide, he disguised himself as a public health offical sent to do dysentery innoculations. 10 people died.
ANxnw TIL the average high-school graduate will earn about $1 million less over their lifetime than the average four-year-college graduate.
KOBea TIL a week after The Shining premiered in theaters, director Stanley Kubrick cut a final scene in a hospital, where Wendy and Danny learn that Jack's body could not be found. The scene was subsequently physically cut out of prints by projectionists and returned to the studio by order of Warner Bros.