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TIL In Belarus, a one-armed man was arrested for clapping

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V4lG TIL that SuperDry is actually a UK-based company that writes Japanese text on its clothing to emulate the practice of Japanese clothing companies that write meaningless English words on their clothes to attract appeal.
LkjpZ TIL that from 1864 to 1870 three countries (Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil) declared war to Paraguay (whos motto is “Victory or Death”). Roughly two-thirds of Paraguay population were killed, including around 90% of its men. That war was called “War of the Triple Alliance”
g6YD TIL that President Wilson actually VETO'ed the Volstead Act but congress passed it anyway bringing on the beginning of Prohibition.
b6kj TIL that a man who gave away his fortune to charity also donated a kidney to a stranger, noting that the chances of dying as a result of the procedure were about 1 in 4,000 and “to withhold a kidney from someone who would otherwise die means valuing one’s own life at 4,000 times that of a stranger”
Z8P74 TIL that Neff (2003) argued that compassion is our common humanity and that Gilbert and Choden (2014) say that because of this compassion isn’t unidirectional but it is a dynamic flow reflected in actions of love and kindness towards each other.