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TIL that most Hungarians must bribe their medical staff in order to get better treatment

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yVewV TIL Composer Richard Wagner lived in Villa Wesendonck, an elegant neoclassical mansion in Zurich. Wagner's house later became the Rietberg Museum, the only gallery in Switzerland to concentrate on non-European cultures
1LE4 TIL that in 2010, Ghana doubled police salaries, in part to reduce petty corruption on its highways. However, researchers found that police officers actually demanded larger bribes after the salary increase, despite allowing more trucks to pass without taking bribes.
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