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TIL in Belgium, prostitution is legal but soliciting a prostitute is illegal. They have to offer their services to you first.

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oBBB7 TIL Van Halen put absurd requests like No Brown M&Ms into their contract to check to see if the venue actually read their tech & safety requirements thoroughly
aw8Ry TIL In 18th century England, some wealthy landowners would hire "ornamental hermits" - poor people dressed in a Druid costume to live in rustic homes in their garden, which may have inspired garden gnome statues
b9pN9 TIL Parasitoid Wasps pierce their pointy stingers into other insects. They lay eggs inside the living hosts, and the wasp hatchings eat their way out of the still-living prey.
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VGaB TIL A woman named Augusta Ada King is regarded as the first computer programmer for her notes in the 1800’s on using computers to compute algorithms.