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TIL In 2008 a British man traveling to Dubai was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being caught with 0.003g of Cannabis, Which was stuck to his shoe.

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YpdKv TIL the United States occupied Japan from the end of WWII in 1945 to April of 1952, but the island of Iwo Jima was not returned to Japan until 1968.
4PMR TIL of Rhythm 0, a six-hour work by performance artist Marina Abramović. The audience was invited to do whatever they wished to and/or with the artist, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table for this purpose including a rose, feather, scalpel, metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.
xOwo TIL an African man was placed in a cage as part of an exhibit at the Bronx Zoo in 1906. He shared it with a monkey. He killed himself in 1916.
7gvb TIL that The average citizen of Liechtenstein doesn’t even lock their door because crime in the country is so low. The last murder was 10 years ago (as of 2007).
BgKKW TIL that Frankie Muniz quit acting in 2008 to become an open-wheel racecar driver and currently competes in NASCAR