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TIL that on the island of Wogeo, Papua New Guinea, menstruation is seen as powerful and cleansing. Even men are expected to do a form of menstruation, in which they slice their penises with a crab claw while standing in the ocean.

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xVdOB TIL there's a town in Oregon named "Bridal Veil" which despite being a near ghost town still have a popular post office still functioning that gets much of its business from people going there to drop off wedding invitations so they can be postmarked "Bridal Veil".
ANr9g TIL that Austrian schools and kindergartens keep a stockpile of potassium iodide pills in case of a nuclear disaster
KYL66 TIL that, while not very common, German-speaking countries have vomit sinks in a very, very few amount of clubs, bars, frat houses and supervised injection sites for drug users called a few different names such as Speibecken or Kotzbecken
69Yd7 TIL that in 1922, a conductorless orchestra modelled on Marxist ideas formed in the Soviet Union. A committee decided tempos and playing styles. However, they found tempo changes difficult due to not having a leader to guide them, and were disbanded 10 years later by Stalin.
OoxLg TIL despite being an equatorial, tropical country, there are permanent glaciers in The Republic of the Congo. The Rwenzori mountains reach upwards of 16,000 feet in elevation, allowing temperatures cold enough to allow snow accumulation and glacier formation year round