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TIL: In Zimbabwe it is still illegal to insult the President and offenders face up to a year in prison or a fine of 4,800 Zimbabwe dollars ($13 USD).

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E1l6o TIL rabbits are bad luck on the Isle of Portland so much so that if a quarry worker saw one, the whole crew would go home until the area was deemed safe to return.
kJWRd TIL during a systemic crisis in the 1970s, 95 Third World states united with OPEC, which threatened to invest its petrodollar surpluses into a New International Economic Order. For the first time in history, an attempt at reforming world order came from an overwhelming global majority.
WomB TIL - There is an “Edible Park” in Ashville, NC. It has over 40 different fruit and nut trees that the public is allowed to go and pick fresh fruits from.
R0Ja TIL a woman lost her wedding ring, went to the extent of de-tiling her floor to find it. 16 years later while gardening, she pulled a carrot out of the ground and found the ring perfectly around it.
rbNw TIL Connie Sawyer, the actress who played the old woman who Jim Carrey told, “Don’t you go dying on me!” in Dumb And Dumber, is still alive. She is currently 103 years old.