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TIL of camoflauge trees: WWI-era hollow, fake trees placed in no man's land to spy on enemy trenches

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xwo0 TIL that that an English journalist threw England into a moral panic about child prostitution and singularly got Parliament to raise the age of consent to 16
l8xN TIL a British traveler in the UAE was arrested for posession of 0.003 g of marijuana. Additionally, a Swiss man is currently serving a jail sentence for having 3 poppy seeds on his shirt.
DLNj TIL celine dion’s my heart will go on was recorded in one take as a demo to convinced james cameron to feature it in his movie the titanic. He approved. The song was never re-recorded. So technically the award winning song was a demo tape.
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