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TIL, sex in Amsterdams VondelPark is entirely legal, as long as you clean up after.

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PYMYg TIL that the reason Elvis never toured outside of North America was because unknown to Elvis, his manager Colonel Parker was an illegal alien and he discouraged him from doing it because he was afraid that if he left the country with Elvis he would not be let back in.
R7D14 TIL about Ethan Couch, a man who killed 4 people in a drunk driving accident in 2013. His punishment, after fleeing to Mexico and getting caught, was to wear an ankle bracelet and adhere to a 9 PM curfew. In May 2019, a Judge removed his ankle bracelet. He is now essentially a free man.
ANPy7 TIL Lucy Hester Stanhope (1776-1839), a British adventurer and archaeologist, discovered a 7-foot tall Greco-Roman statue which she then smashed into pieces and tossed into the Mediterranean because she wanted to prove to the Ottoman government that she had no interest in stealing their antiquities.
ov4r TIL trolled has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary
apgy TIL that in the greeks myths there was the Unknown God, a placeholder for those gods yet unknown to the ancient greeks .