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Short answer: Yes, but they’re pretty much illegal

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aYP0 TIL: In Mexico If you escape from prison and do not break any laws, you will not be charged for anything and if you are caught time will not be added to your sentence… escaping is in human nature and there not only legal but considered to be the right thing to do.
KYAlQ TIL: There's a square in Bucharest (Romania) that was renamed after Adolf Hitler during World War II, then renamed after Joseph Stalin during the Cold War, and is now currently named after Charles de Gaulle.
9Y4vM TIL That in the 80s Nestle tricked African villagers by giving them free baby formula thus causing their bodies to stop producing breast milk in order to sell their product for entire infancy, they even had sales people wear "nurse" coats to advise that formula was safer than their breastmilk.
DR1V TIL the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean had a God of disorder and chaos called ‘Juracán’. This word is the origin of the English word 'hurricane’
ZpVaD TIL that Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts made his book Blindsight available under a Creative Commons license which tripled its sales