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TIL Ottawa, Canada has a panhandlers union

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1aaPr TIL after the India-Pakistan partition in August 1947, the Reserve Bank of India served as the Central Bank of Pakistan till June 1948
mxAKM TIL that men wearing wedding rings was not common until World War 2, when soldiers would wear a ring to remind them of their love back home. After WW2, it became mainstream for men to wear a wedding ring.
0dgXy TIL that Sam Spade, despite being a noir icon, not including a few short stories only canonically appeared in the novel The Maltese Falcon and its movie adaptions
ZL6a TIL that despite being the third largest country in the world, China only has one time zone, mostly based around the far Eastern portions (where most of the population lives). As a result, in Western regions such as Tibet, the sun officially rises at around 10:00 AM.
wMR8 TIL there is a proposed HTTP status code 451 indicating censorship, referencing Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 novel