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TIL at Germany’s Klaasohm festival on Borkum Island, masked men traditionally chased women and beat them with a cow horn, a ritual linked to whaling history. After public outrage and political intervention, the practice was abolished.

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p8K4 TIL US Congressmen and Congresswomen earn $174,000 to $223,500 a year, have a guaranteed cost-of-living-adjustment, can trade stocks based on the information they get from public office, have great healthcare, and set their own salaries.
m1NXE TIL from 1948 to 1952, future West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was a paid informant on the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps, providing reports on the situation in East Germany.
v1JA8 TIL that stripper poles spin in place, rather than the performer sliding around them.
0k1 TIL that Fidel Castro recommended to the Kremlin a harder line against Washington, even suggesting the possibility of nuclear strikes. The pressure stopped after Soviet officials gave Castro a briefing on the ecological impact on Cuba of nuclear strikes on the United States
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