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TIL a translator for the European Commission in Brussels knows 32 languages including Greek, English, German, Italian, Russian, East African Swahili, Hebrew, Arabic, Mandarin and Bengali, plus some dead languages like Old Church Slavic.

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bea0 TIL several European countries prescribe free heroin to addicts in order to improve there “social and health situation” while “significantly reduce[ing] costs incurred by trials, incarceration, health interventions and delinquency.”
MeYx0 TIL that Roman Catholicism is the state religion of Costa Rica.
OYm1 TIL: In 2004, 200 women took law in their own hands and came to the court armed with vegetable knives and chilli powder and murdered on the court floor a serial rapist. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.
4XNmg TIL that Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis wrote a series of morbid comic strips about the fat cat in the 1980’s, including one story line where his entire existence is the imagination of an abandoned lonely cat
KvX6 TIL the US in the 1980s gave aid to Iraq in the form of biological weapons material, military training and more.