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TIL that Tibetan monks must get permission from the Chinese government to reincarnate

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GAKR7 TIL that in 1910 English pranksters disguised as Ethiopian diplomats fooled the Royal Navy into giving them a tour of HMS Dreadnought. They spoke a gibberish of mostly Greek and Latin and would shout "Bunga bunga!" to express astonishment. One of them was author Virginia Woolf.
aOD9 TIL patent offices do not accept applications for perpetual motion machines.
gB49 TIL Some flush toilets in Japan have a spigot on top of the tank,allowing users to conserve water by washing their hands in water destined for the next flush.
GDkJ TIL that back in the day, a lot of professional middle-class blacks always traveled with a chauffeur’s hat. The reason: If they were driving a nice new car through a small southern town, they didn’t want police officers, or any other whites, to know the car belonged to them.
BrDOL TIL that in May 1987, 300,000 people, in celebrating the Golden Gate Bridge bridge's 50th anniversary walked across the span - flattening the normally arched roadbed, and causing some to become sick.