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TIL that Switzerland has legally mandated daily 'quiet hours' and the whole day of Sunday is considered 'quiet time.' You can be cited for doing things like cutting your grass on Sunday.

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78QWZ TIL That Lewis Carrol's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" requires great creativity on the part of translators as they need to invent nonsense words that evoke similar feelings to each made-up word in the English original.
0wnV5 TIL: there is minimal, short-term, and generally unreliable evidence that flossing might reduce gum inflammation, but no convincing evidence that it promotes plaque removal or prevents tooth decay or dental cavities
GY6Vg TIL that soldiers have been drawing Phallic objects on walls since at least A.D. 207 archaeologists evidence shows Roman Soldiers would Graffiti Hadrian's Wall with them.
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