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TIL in Denmark it's legal to burn the national flag, but illegal to burn foreign (i.e non-Danish) flags

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aajA TIL that Toys R Us started the initiative of a ‘quiet hour’ in all its stores in the UK,last Christmas. The initiative involved temporarily dimming the lights and switching off music and announcements, in order to help the autistic children shop for Christmas.
l7G0a TIL that single men in 1900s Argentina paid "professional lady rejectors" to avoid bachelor tax
epjWk TIL The Smoot-Hawley Act raised tariffs to the second highest in U.S. History in 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by other countries. causing exports and imports to decline by 2/3. Economists and economic historians have agreed that the Act worsened the Great Depression.
9Yek7 French paratroopers once used “Bazooka Vespas” in combat
d85OQ TIL Greenland is part of North America