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TIL that in Germany, Holocaust denial constitutes a crime of incitement to hatred and carries a prison sentence of up to five years.

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4kLRo TIL The phrase “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” came from an advertising slogan created by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and R&R Partners in 2003. They hoped to rebrand Vegas as a place where visitors could let loose. The original phrase was “what happens here, stays here.”
P1pwJ TIL one of the earliest medical descriptions of a phobia was by Hippocrates (460 - 370BC) who recounted a man named Nicanor who apparently suffered from a fear of flute music.
VpjQ TIL Retired AFL legend Tom Hafey wakes up at 5.20am every morning and does an 8km run, 250 push ups and 700 crunches. He is 82.
D1LYj TIL India and Pakistan fought a war in the mountains at over 20,000 feet in altitude (6,000 meters) in 1984
8eW4Z TIL That due to limited plumbing and water supply in Antartica, research stations use incinerator toilets. An incinerator toilet is a waterless, self-contained sanitation unit that uses high temperatures to combust human waste (solid and liquid) into small amounts of sterile, odorless ash.