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TIL In the Philippines, cutting plants of scenic value on public grounds is punishable by an imprisonment of 6 months, 1 day as minimum to 8 years as maximum.

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BramW TIL Australian Don Ritchie talked at least 160 people out of committing suicide at Watson's Bay by offering them a cup of tea and someone to talk to. He was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia for his efforts.
0wJbA TIL Pennsylvania Dutch groups were actually from Germany. The word "Dutch" does not refer to the Dutch people, but to the German settlers, known as "Deutsch".
jk0v TIL that in the 19. century men used to wear detachable stiff collars. They were dubbed ‘father killers’ as they could cut off the blood supply to the carotid artery, causing the wearer to suffocate.
epmK4 TIL that American physicist Richard Feynman once faced off against a Japanese abacus expert to see which could calculate faster. The abacus consistently won on more simple operations, but Feynman was faster in division and complex calculations such as cube roots.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.