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TIL Tobacco companies in India literally target kids by placing adverts at their eye level, not adults.

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5YD1Q TIL in 2012, 2410 years after the original trial, a mock trial of Socrates was held by a panel consisting of 10 international judges deciding under the ancient Athenian law. Final vote was split 5-5 and he was narrowly acquitted. Audience members watching the mock trial also voted 584-282 to acquit.
1v1P TIL Google sent a lone employee to map an entire abandoned Japanese island, which was once the most densely-populated place on Earth
XEXDD TIL that a rogue artist drew a penis on a rock in the animated children’s series “Maya the Bee"
AoNa TIL that Verne Troyer was raised Amish and struggled with alcoholism and cocaine addiction.
4XPba TIL After Polio started spreading, swimming pools and movie theaters were closed every summer for forty years.