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TIL train attendants on the Shanghai-Beijing bullet train are required to smile while showing eight of their front teeth.

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78rkr TIL that Pappy Van Winkle bourbon, which sells for thousands per bottle, was so undesirable for decades that the brand was sold everywhere from "gimmicky decanters shaped like college mascots" in the 1980s to entire privately sold barrels for only $1200 as late as the early 2000s.
xAxb TIL that it is illegal in Denmark to profit off of somebody else’s nudity. Therefore becoming a prostitute is allowed, but becoming a pimp is not.
bjOj TIL by using more pressure than found in earth’s core, scientists at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut made diamond gemstones from peanut butter. Scientist Dan Frost noted that the hydrogen that’s bonded to the peanut butter’s carbon makes the process messier and that the process is slow.
MeaZa TIL in 1978, two punk bands, "the cramps" and "the mutants", were booked to play a live show at a mental institution in Napa, California. At onother point, the mutants played at a school for the deaf, with the kids holding balloons in their hand in order to "feel the music"
kOJKE TIL that America’s Oldest Private Detective Agency has been investigating China’s Fake Products