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TIL about Genna, a traditional Ethiopian sport similar to field hockey, played on a cow field without removing the cows. The goals are sometimes miles apart.

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XElrr TIL, in 1970s, South Korea introduced the Minor Offenses Act that mandated limits on men's hair length and women's miniskirt length. Men with long hair were taken to a police station to have their hair cut against their will. Arrested women were forced to wear a 'modest' costume in police station.
oBJrA TIL Peppers change their name when they are dried. For example, a Chipotle is a smoked and dried jalapeño
md8p TIL the “bus stop” sign is painted by hand without using a lettered stencil. Yet the uniformity!
D1X4g TIL in 1968, Joachim Foikis received a $3500 grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to dress up in a jester’s outfit and "mock the four pillars of society: money, status, respectability, and conformity". He served as Vancouver's official Town Fool for two years.
GZX7 TIL that every medicine certified by the FDA must be tested using horseshoe crab blood.