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TIL that it’s illegal to wear camouflage in: Antigua, Barbados, Grenada, Jamaica, Nigeria, Oman, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Zambia or Zimbabwe. You probably won’t end up in jail, but you can expect to part ways with all your camouflage gear.

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b9kVj TIL the Italy is one of the few countries to reserve seats in parliament to represent Italians living abroad. This means there are 18 Italian-Brazilians, Italian-Americans, and others serving as senators or deputies in Rome.
GYVJ5 TIL that the game, Borderlands 2 has an NPC character named Michael Mamaril, who offers out loot and weapons to players. This character was created as a tribute to a fan, Michael John Mamarial, who passed away from illness at the young age of 22.
BrgLd TIL in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a central African country entered as Northern Rhodesia and left as Zambia becoming the first country to change its name and flag during the games.
JYZW4 TIL that the three obelisks in London, Paris and New York that are known as “Cleopatra’s Needle” were actually a thousand years old by the time of the reign of the Ptolemaic pharaoh from whom they get their name.
4XPQb TIL that in 1987 a group in Mumbai, India pretending to be CBI officers (Indian FBI) advertised and conducted interviews claiming to be hiring "Intelligence and Security Officers". 26 people were hired, and then they were used to "raid" (rob) a jewelry store. The group was never caught.