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TIL: Saudi Declares Online Satire A Punishable Offense

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Z8JKa TIL that police officers tap the rear of your vehicle with their hand when performing a traffic stop so that if anything were to happen to the officer during the encounter, there would be physical evidence of them coming into contact with your vehicle via fingerprints.
LkvZP TIL during Mao'great leap campaign in China, starvation was so horrible that people started comitting acts of canabalism which includes eating the death and parents eating their own children.
v1PeL TIL the Belgian national dish "les frites" was wrongly given the name "French Fries" by World War One American servicemen moving through Wallonia, a French-speaking region of Belgium, creating confusion with the invention’s nationality.
LQbYd TIL that the integral symbol is NOT part of the greek alphabet unlike many math symbols like pi, summation, lambda, etc
N75Zb TIL turning down the radio in your car to concentrate more may actually increase visual acuity, it's your brains way of prioritizing tasks.