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

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6940w TIL 2 people are buried on the Georgia’s Savannah Airport runway where hundreds of planes land every day
v1OKr TIL after 30 WWII veterans in their mid-nineties were shown ‘Dunkirk,’ the general consensus among them was that they loved the film and thought it captured events very accurately, but “thought the soundtrack was louder than the actual bombardment.” The comment amused Nolan greatly.
4Va TIL Bruce Lee’s speed in terms of reacting + punching from a distance of three feet away was determined to be around five hundredths of a second (0.05 second)
WkQrL TIL in apartheid South Africa a "Pencil Test" determined if an ambiguous looking person was white, black or coloured. If the pencil passed through their hair with ease, they "passed", but if it didn't, it suggested Afro-textured hair and they'd be forced to live apart from the white community.
WkVd8 TIL that there's a caterpillar, Uraba lugens, called "the mad hatterpillar", becuse it goes around with its old shedded heads stacked on as hats