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TIL dancing in clubs after midnight is illegal in Japan

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xVpP7 TIL that Burkina Faso meaning “land of incorruptible people” used to be called The Republic of Upper Volta after the Volta river with its flag representing the 3 main tributaries: the Black, White, and the Red Volta.
1ddW TIL Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, is a doctoral student and has co-authored a paper on microRNA in HIV genomes.
gMx9D TIL The first Earth Day was in 1970 and was proposed by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. After seeing the damage caused by a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California in 1969, he was inspired to educate the public about the environment.
1a5DX TIL that bumblebees hold the insect record for high altitude flying. They have been discovered on Mt. Everest at more than 5,600-meters above sea level, and flew successfully in a flight chamber which recreated the thin air of 9,000-meters.
OG7e4 TIL there is a pro-slavery follow-up to "Uncle Tom's Cabin", called "Uncle Robin, in His Cabin in Virginia, and Tom Without One in Boston". The latter was written by a different author and released just a year after the former as a direct counter to its anti-slavery message.