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TIL Canada once had a ‘Exotic Dancer Visa Program’ where foreign women can enter the country to strip. Human traffickers took advantage of this..

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BRwW TIL that the nursery rhyme “Mary Mary Quite Contrary” is about Mary Tudor, and that the “silver bells and cockle shells” are allusions to instruments of torture.
5V9vD TIL In 2014, black taxi cab drivers brought parts of London to a standstill, protesting against Uber. This led to an 850% increase in downloads of Uber.
9yEB TIL Farmers feed large magnets to cows to prevent “Hardware Disease”. Cow Magnets sit in their “stomach” for the lifetime of the cow and prevent accidentally eaten pieces of metal from lodging in the stomach folds causing illness.
kJka7 TIL that there is a genetic mutation which vastly reduces armpit odor. A mutation disabling the “ABCC11” gene changes the chemical structure of armpit sweat, inhibiting the action of skin bacteria. Notably, this mutation is mostly found in East Asian populations
Yl9P TIL the jets extending from slow-motion Nuclear Explosions are the tower’s support cables being vaporized by x-rays before the shockwave even hits.