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TIL that a "Silent Man" in the UK repeatedly gets arrested for standing on one road to block traffic. He never speaks a word, not even to paramedics, police, the court, or his own lawyer. Ongoing for more than a decade. Everytime he is released, he repeats the crime and remains completely silent.

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X0ZER TIL For thousands of years, syilx people and other Canadian First Nations have been visiting a sacred medicine lake with 365 naturally formed “spots”. A non-Indigenous man once wanted to convert it into a spa but First Nations took back possession of the lake and permission is required to visit
QNGn9 Today I learned about Lions Not Sheep customers actually being sheep. 😂
j6rrE TIL that the New York City Subway has the most stops of any metro system in the world.
Nj06 TIL Aziz Ansari started a group called “The Food Club”, that visits restaurants dressed in suits and captains hats, and if they like the food, they leave a plaque which states “The Food Club has dined here and deemed it plaque-worthy.”
6EgLY TIL that MAS*H aired on BBC2 in the UK without a laugh track, as the creators of the show intended it to be seen, while CBS studio executives would not air the show in the US without one. Series creator Larry Gelbart later said: "I always thought it cheapened the show. The network got their way."