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TIL that Spain is only second to Cambodia in forced disappearances, with about 145,000 victims during the Franco dictatorship, and no one has been tried for it, since institutions kept essentially the same officers after democracy was reinstated.

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J4Ql TIL that in Japan, avid golfers buy insurance to protect themselves on the course. They purchase it because if they get a hole-in-one, they have to buy gifts and drinks for their friends. The policy covers them for a party worth up to $4,900.
MG4W TIL a 2012 episode of Peppa Pig was banned from Australia as the central message that spiders were not to be feared was deemed “inappropriate for an Australian audience”
X0LDR TIL the Belgian passport has pictures of Tintin, The Smurfs and Lucky Luke.
neYyo TIL about 1700 people in a three-village community in Central Italy that speak a nearly extinct Slavic language.
eXWD TIL Hawaiian Airlines lets you travel with a 10lbs box of Pineapples or Papaya for free on any flight leaving Hawaii.