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TIL in Japan, some restaurants and attractions are charging higher prices for foreign tourists compared to locals to manage the increased demand without overburdening the locals

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KYedQ TIL that Plato was sold into slavery when attempting to tell Dionysius, the tyrant of Syracuse, to change his ways and embrace moderation. He would later be ransomed by his friends.
GYDLg TIL Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, spent 10 years of his life programming an operating system to talk to God
KYdd6 TIL Margaret of Provence, queen consort of France, was the only woman to ever lead a crusade, when her husband was captured and she was in charge of his army and the negotiations to rescue him.
BAKL TIL that Walt Disney loved trains since he was a teenager and occasionally donned an engineer’s outfit and drove the Disneyland railroad’s locomotives when they were pulling trains with passengers on board.
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