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TIL According to halacha (Jewish law), married Jewish women are expected to cover their hair when in the presence of men other than their husband or close family members.

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GAoxQ Today I learned about the 20 year old Belgian man who died from eating 5 day old spaghetti.
aGX0 TIL that a customer closed his million-dollar bank account after his bank refused to validate a 50c parking ticket
BOgK TIL that North Korea has a policy of mandatory voting to elect its legislature…but each ballot has only a single candidate on it.
dDxLj TIL: At 8 minutes 42, Don McLean's American Pie is the 6th longest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100. At the time of release it was the longest. The song held the record for being the longest song to reach number one for almost 50 years before Taylor Swift's All Too Well broke the record in 2021.
mxDky TIL that a man in the UK grew tired of cold callers to his phone line, so he set up his own phone line as a premium rate number. When cold callers phoned him, he would be making money by keeping them talking.