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TIL that you have to weight your bags to take the train in Canada

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b9RL0 TIL that while the punishment for an incelibate Vestal Virgin was to be buried alive, ancient Roman law forbade burials within the city. Offenders instead were entombed in small underground apartments with food and provisions, changing the legal definition to "descending into a habitable room."
09R5 TIL of a little-known French law that if you were born in one of the USA states that was created from the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 or any other former French territory, the five-year waiting period for french citizenship may be waived.
nWW8Y TIL that Jim Leavelle, the tan-suited detective famously present at the killing of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, was also a witness to the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
8aykP TIL In 2019, a hipster complained to MIT Technology Review for using his picture to imply hipsters look the same, end up discovering the picture was of an entirely different hipster
DJ4e TIL that as a 16 year old Ronda Rousey was a moderator of a Pokémon forum, and her username was mew182.