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TIL that the Bangkok police used Hello Kitty armbands to shame officers for minor offenses

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v15Z8 TIL of Godiva, who wanted lower taxes. To convince her husband the Earl, she rode her horse naked through the streets. The public was ordered to close their shutters. Tom decided to look and was struck blind. This produced the term "Peeping Tom" as well as the name of the chocolate company Godiva.
GAngG TIL that the 97-kilogram Welcome Stranger, the biggest gold nugget ever found, wasn't discovered deep beneath the earth in a mine, it was only 3 cm below the surface.
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8eNZa TIL that Pablo Picasso said of the first moon landing, as published in the New York Times a day later, "It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it and I don't care."
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