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TIL it's mandatory for school children to use fountain pen in Germany

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JYvBV TIL a century after the bloody and violent Hatfield–McCoy feud in West Virginia/Kentucky, the two families faced off again on the game show "Family Fued" in 1979. The teams received a mannequin for every match they won as the producers thought it would be funny to “litter the stage with bodies”.
0oBN TIL that Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace do not actually win the Jack Rabbit Slim’s Twist Contest. We see them walk into her house with the trophy but later when Butch is walking into his apartment a commercial is on, and the faint voice in the commercial says that the trophy was stolen.
JYmPk TIL Brazil has nearly 60,000 murders a year, more than the US, Canada, Australia, all of Europe, China, and many Asian countries combined.
e0p7E TIL that your nose runs when you cry because of canals leading from your eyes to your nose, draining the water that way when you blink.
nWJlo TIL of Abe Reles, a New York Jewish mobster who became a government informant on Murder, Inc. After falling out of a window to his death, newspapers dubbed him "The Canary Who Could Sing, But Couldn't Fly".