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TIL that in Western Australia, it is illegal to possess more than 50kg/110lb of potatoes.

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rN94e TIL that humans are the only animals that have chins
6kWw TIL that only one nation in the world has mandatory and enforced with fines, helmet laws for all bicyclists. New Zealand.
PQXE TIL that the couple hugging wrapped in a blanket on the cover of the “Woodstock” film are still together, married, with two adult children.
XROr TIL that when a missionary told the Amazonian Piraha tribe the story of his aunt’s suicide, they laughed. No one in their tribe had ever committed suicide and they had no concept of it, so they thought it was a joke.
b91dQ TIL of the Nazino affair - the mass deportation of 6,000 "socially harmful" people to Nazino Island in the Soviet Union in May 1933. They were abandoned with only flour for food, and little in the way of tools, clothing, or shelter, and those who attempted to leave were killed by armed guards.