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TIL In Samoa it is illegal to forget your wife’s birthday.

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Ypra7 TIL that the British and the EIC stole nearly $45 trillion dollars from India over a period of 173 years, stalling the development of the Indian subcontinent.
YpwGr TIL Florentine society during Renaissance tacitly accepted male homosexuality but had a rigid rule: passive/receptive partner must be under 20 years of age while active partner had to be older (20s or early 30s). Reversing those roles was considered shocking and a deviation from the “natural order.”
d8vQ TIL that the earliest known surviving pair of cloth socks was designed for sandals.
8a91a TIL Queen Victoria wrote an average 2,500 words per day, and her personal journal grew to a total of 122 volumes.
jVXn TIL North Korea has developed its own scoring system for basketball. Three points for a dunk, four points for a three pointer that doesn’t touch the rim, and eight points for a basket scored in the final three seconds.