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Today I learned that dolphins also get high

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PY97G TIL in 2008 due to the recession Japanese workers could go to a shop called 'The Venting Place' in Tokyo and buy plates to smash against a wall to release anger. "You can get three small dishes for 500 yen, a medium sized plate for 500 yen, a big platter for 1000 yen"
PWbL TIL that in Mexico no test is needed for a driving licence
kEY4 TIL During the WWI fight for Belgrade, Serbia, German troops encountered a very stiff resistance, so German Field Marshal August von Mackensen erected a monument to the Serbian soldiers who died defending Belgrade, saying, “We fought against an army that we have heard about only in fairy tales.”
oBVDr TIL about Polyphonic Singing (ie, singing two or more different notes at the same time)
4W6N TIL Norway started building a “highway for bees” in 2015. The bee-friendly corridor in Oslo passes through places where bees like to both live and feed, and features feeding stations.