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TIL that the symbols and squiggles that are used to represent a bad word are called “grawlixes”

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7RNp TIL: Over the whole Twilight series, there has been 24 minutes of just staring.
wLDKW TIL that Richard Vallières stole more than $18.7 million worth of maple syrup from a facility in Quebec between 2011-2012, making it the largest heist in Canadian history.
pngp TIL a parasitic barnacle will infect a crab, castrate the males, make them think they’re female, and force them to carry around the barnacles brood as if it is their own
X5N6 TIL Germany mandates all drivers to come to the rescue of an accident victim unless there is already an ambulance present. “If there is an accident, a driver is obliged to stop and help, whenever and to the degree to which it is possible”
JpZl TIL in North Korea women are not allowed to ride bikes, wedding ceremonies MUST be held before one of the 34,000 Kim-Il-Sung statues, and citizens must display in their homes a portrait of their leader.