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TIL 70% of Saudi Arabias electrical consumption is used exclusively for air conditioning

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wL9g1 TIL that Vlad Dracula was called Vlad the Impaler because when his country was invaded by Ottomans, he had hundreds of soldiers impaled by putting stakes through their rectum in a way that missed their vital organs and kept them living and writhing for days to make an example for incoming invaders
DMWr TIL in Canada it is illegal to cause ANY bodily harm to a thief as they run away
4rea TIL: Human Rights watch predicts an explosion in people living with AIDS in the Philippines because the Catholic church opposes condoms and sex education
NXn5N TIL about Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or the "tooth in eye" surgery) where a part of a tooth is implanted into an eye to restore patient's vision
wOgP TIL A man foreclosed on a Bank of America branch after his house was wrongly foreclosed. He showed up with moving trucks and the local sheriff and told them to take everything out of the bank.