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TIL of the Amish subgroup called Renno Amish where the men are allowed to wear only one suspender.

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kpG5 TIL when the Swedish secret police tried to quietly pressure an ISP to install its spying apparatus, the ISP secretly recorded the conversation and released it to the media instead of complying.
8apZV TIL flow is the mental state in which a person is completely absorbed in an activity, resulting in a loss of their sense of space and time.
9YLbB TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who saved the world from possible nuclear annihilation by breaking protocol, when on October 5th 1960, the BMEWS site in Thule, Greenland falsely detected a level 5 ICBM attack due to the rising moon.
L06v TIL That Jackie Chan did the voice acting and singing for the Chinese dub of “Beauty and the Beast” (1991).
v157x TIL that the word "Karaoke" comes from Japan, meaning "empty orchestra" ("Kara Okestura")