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TIL Utah law requires the state to maintain a White Collar Criminal registry to protect its citizens against affinity fraud.

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JRGk TIL that when Super Famicom (SNES) first launched in Japan, Nintendo had to ship the consoles in the middle of the night so the Yakuza didn’t hijack them
Wr7Y TIL that former US president James A. Garfield knew both Ancient Greek and Latin. Along with being ambidextrous, he could write in both languages at the same time.
9Y5lX TIL our star is called the Sun but doesn't have an actual name. *Not even Sol.
wX0P TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
P1A1O TIL Yogyakarta is a special administrative region in Indonesia co-ruled by a Sultan and a Duke within the Indonesian Republic