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TIL that 26.82 million air tickets as well as 5.96 million high-speed rail tickets have been denied to chinese people whom were deemed untrustworthy, because of a bad social credit score.

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M7o9m TIL the sirens from Homers Odyssey were never said to be actually beautiful, or even mermaids. Instead, they were strange human-faced bird creatures who lured men to their deaths by promising them wisdom and knowledge of the future
wL5gJ TIL that there is a fourth wise monkey which isn’t commonly included. “See no evil”, “Hear no evil”, “Speak no evil” and “Do no evil”
mxlPp TIL Roman citizens were entitled to free allotments of wine given to them by the state (skip to 20:20)
7MM7 TIL cocaine addiction treatment is 7 times more effective in reducing cocaine consumption than law enforcement.
wy47 TIL Pluto is so far away, that not only has it still not completed a full orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1930, it’s barely completed a third of its orbit. It won’t complete its first full orbit until 2178.