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TIL that in Bangalore, India, the government shames property tax defaulters by sending drummers to makes noise and wave banners outside of their properties until they pay their taxes.

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1arw7 TIL that there is a "letter of last resort" on every trident nuclear submarine in the Royal Navy. They are hand written by the PM and destroyed unread every time a new PM is elected. They contain orders for an event where Britain is destroyed, but nobody will know what they are until that time comes
gMl4b TIL that there are only three countries in the world that don't use the metric system - Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States.
x6QgB TIL that Shipworms, a marine mollusk or "termites of the sea", may have changed the history of the world by helping the British defeat the Spanish Armada by eating away at their formidable 130-ship fleet. They also inspired the design of modern tunnel boring machines by how they eat wood head first.
xgR1 TIL of ‘Tent City’, an Arizona jail built out of old military tents, operational since 1993
9rBG TIL Grapefruit Juice can interact dangerously with a number of medications.