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TIL Pakistan once tried to ban the words mango, lavender, athlete’s foot, Wuutang and pud (among others) from being sent via text message due to “obscenity”

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w78M TIL that Pakistan’s parliament is the only parliament in the world to be fuelled solely by solar power.
LQM9p TIL The scrolls from Edo period Japan depicting farting competitions were called He-Gassen
a8OK0 TIL that the longest prison sentence ever served was 71 years
WRdo TIL 262,000,000 people were murdered by government in the 20th century alone according to a University of Hawaii study.
R7A01 TIL in 2019, a man went missing during a skiing trip in upstate New York, only to be found 6 days later in California wearing ski gear with no memory of how he got there.