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TIL that Indonesian names can legally not be longer than 60 characters.

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VLWQ TIL: Super Bowl referees also receive Super Bowl rings.
b9va7 TIL that deceased Tibetan Buddhists are given a “sky burial” in which the body is folded in half, walked to the burial site on someone’s back, and then dismembered and fed to vultures. There is no wood for a cremation, and the ground is too hard to dig due to the high altitude they live in.
BgWPx TIL 100 years ago, the big band song "Masculine Women, Feminine Men" worried that women were too manly for smoking and playing pool, while men were too effeminate for buying cologne and dressing their children
Lbkm TIL the german word for contraceptive pills is ‘antibabypille’
Wk5k8 TIL about the italian revolutionary Nicola Bombacci. He has been the first italian to meet the Russian Bolsheviks, one of the founders of the Italian Communist Party in 1921, and one of the best friends and mentors of Benito Mussolini, with whom he was hanged at the end of WWII.