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TIL up until 2009, Panama had a working visa category specifically for foreign prostitutes

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yQyv TIL that a South Carolina woman was fined $445 for having “truck nutz” on her vehicle.
W7Nr8 TIL that Pepsi and Coca-Cola have been involved in a "Cola War" since the 1970s. It came to a head during Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta, where Coca-Cola's HQ is, when Pepsi was one of the main sponsors and ran a campaign with the slogan "Hey Atlanta, Thanks for Hosting. We'll Bring the Drinks."
Y7pDx TIL that birds, despite not being mammals, have navels. In chickens, navel quality is considered an indicator of chick quality and of the level of care that was taken with the eggs during incubation.
5YWlR TIL had it not been for the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English we speak today would have been much different and more restrictive. The merging of Old English and Norman French led to Modern English being sort of hybrid of the two, giving another shade of meaning to words such as "swine" vs "pork".
yjkM TIL Philosopher and Mathematician Pythagoras hated beans so much that he refused to run through a bean field while trying to escape from a mob that was out to kill him. The mob slit his throat.