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TIL that in June 2004, every subscriber of Reason Magazine received a personalized issue that had their name and a satellite photo of their home or workplace on the cover.

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OvDX TIL the Geneva Conventions prohibit the wearing of fake insignia, but the law makes no mention on the complete absence of insignia. As a result, the alleged Russian soldiers wearing no insignia while fighting in Ukraine in 2014 were exempt from the Geneva Conventions.
e0NQ6 TIL Kvass, like many of the oldest-known beer styles, was likely discovered by accident. Somebody drank the water-bread mixture that had been sitting out for a few days and decided what it had turned into was something worth making again
B9My TIL that due to falling birthrates, many Japanese companies offer bonuses for having more kids. The telecom company Softbank offers bonuses ranging from $400 for the first child to $40,000 for the fifth.
nWW5Y TIL the Ottawa Convention is a 1997 treaty signed by 133 countries to ban antipersonnel land mines. The U.S. never signed. The U.S. placed thousands of mines in the DMZ between the Koreas during the Cold War to help deter an overwhelming ground invasion from the North.
0j8p TIL Little Caesars and Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch quietly paid Rosa Park’s rent for more than a decade, after she was robbed in her home and forced to move to a safer, but more expensive part of Detroit