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TIL that video game loot boxes are "in violation of gambling legislation" and thus illegal in Belgium

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vOGB TIL any American with a DUI charge, no matter how old, will be denied entrance to Canada.
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wLPA1 TIL the origin of the phrase “steal my thunder” is an 18th century playwright who created a machine that recreated thunder noises for a cancelled play. When he attended a later play in the same theatre and heard it used, he cried "Damn them! They will not let my play run, but they steal my thunder."
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9Ja7 TIL that 789 grams of 2,700-year-old marijuana were found in a Chinese tomb in 2008.