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TIL that in parts of Philadelphia you must be fingerprinted to trade in games at GameStop.

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6Rgm TIL A 15 year old boy was locked up for a year on false rape charges, and the girl received no punishment when she admitted lying a year later.
PYJJL TIL that in 5 US states the gas chamber is still a legal way of execution
YpQ9Z TIL in 2012 the "average" car sold in the UK was a 5-year-old Vauxhall Corsa with 57,000 miles on the clock.
69ojW TIL that the city center of Lyallpur (today's Faisalabad, Pakistan) was designed by the British to imitate the Union Jack, with eight roads radiating from a large clock tower (Ghenta Ghar) in the centre of eight separate bazaars
b94v4 TIL of Merck, the 352 year old pharmaceutical company responsible for the introduction of cocaine, morphine and invention of MDMA