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TIL: The World Wide Web is 22 today.

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69LBY TIL that mentally disabled patients at the Judge Rotenberg Center aren't allowed to talk to each-other and will get punised if they do so, employees also can't chat with other employees, it's even encouraged for employees to rat each-other out if they try to have conversation
Vb4Q TIL A woman in a declining, remote village in Japan created hundreds of scarecrows to make her town more lively.
jNeXp TIL that every home in Switzerland must legally contain a shelter, as part of an aim to accommodate the entire population in the event of nuclear attack.
OXwa TIL that a a 14-year-old North Korean schoolgirl drowned while attempting to rescue portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il from a flood.
J1Xb8 TIL Canada has the most lakes in the world, with 62% of the world's lakes located in Canada