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TIL Jamaica is seen as “the most homophobic place on Earth”. Homosexual men face ten years imprisonment, and cases of beatings and murder directed at the LGBT population are extremely commonplace.

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a8G5J TIL one criteria to become a Catholic Church Saint, you must have performed atleast 1 miracle in your lifetime
jNNMN TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.
QJA8d TIL that in 1982, Zimbabwe passed a law banning citizens from making jokes about the surname of the President, Canaan Banana.
e0oDJ TIL DoorDash was forced to honor its own arbitration clause after over 5,000 drivers took the company to arbitration, and costed it $12 million just in filing fees.
GAnnG TIL notorious violent UK prisoner Charles Bronson has spent much of his prison life in solitary confinement. He wrote a book in 2002 on the topic of how to stay fit in a solitary confinement cell.