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TIL Carmel By The Sea, California prohibits wearing high heels over two inches in height and less than one square inch of bearing surface without first getting a permit from City Hall.

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pLQp TIL a NZ citizen was imprisoned inside one of the world’s harshest prisons in Myanmar for over a year because he posted an image of Buddha with headphones on his Facebook page.
4vOb TIL The developers of famous movies such as Forest Gump, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Return of the Jedi and many others use “Hollywood Accounting” to inflate expenses and show a net loss. This allowed them to completely dodge payments to writers that agreed to be paid a percentage of net profit.
XErJ8 TIL the children's cartoon Arthur is still producing new episodes and is on its 21st season, and has been running longer than South Park
WkgPX TIL the last English knight to be publicly degraded (stripped of knighthood) was Francis Mitchell in 1628. He’d committed extortion. His spurs were broken and thrown out, his belt cut, and his sword broken over his head. He was called "no longer a Knight but Knave" and led to the Tower of London.
OGa0g TIL there is a type of hungarian food called 'Hitlerszalonna' ... is it Kosher tho?