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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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loYeG TIL an ad had children looking at the ad see a photo of an abused boy, a help hotline and the message “if somebody hurts you, phone us and we’ll help you” while adults can only see an unbruised photo of the boy with the text “Sometimes child abuse is only visible to the child suffering it.”
ZWeY TIL The Black Cauldron (1985) did so poorly at the box office that it was released on VHS until 13 years later and to this day it has yet to make back even half of its $44 million budget.
ANLxw TIL the Brazilian voice actors for Scooby-Doo and Shaggy worked together voicing the characters for over 30 years and passed away just 3 days apart.
nWwbd TIL that, in 1940, the British government offered Northern Ireland to the Republic of Ireland in exchange for Ireland’s entrance into the Second World War.
Brkwr TIL In 2016, the USFDA banned anti-bacterial soaps because they are not better, cleaner or safer than regular soap.