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TIL that homeschooling is a serious crime in Germany.

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GAeAE TIL that the Beatles played Dingwall, Scotland, in 1963 and only 19 people attended
nWkdd TIL that Arab soap operas (musalsalat) air during the month of Ramadan and are enjoyed after the fast-breaking meal of Iftar. They typically last for 30 episodes that coincide with each night of Ramadan.
e0wx6 TIL Manga is so popular in Japan that the country uses more paper for printing Manga than toilet paper.
J1mBQ TIL It takes 17 years to grow a shitake mushroom in the traditional Japanese system. Sawtooth oak logs, the preferred growing medium for shitake, take 15 years to grow. It then takes another two years to inject the mushroom spores into the logs and grow the mature fruit.
RpR9 TIL Apollo 13 holds the absolute altitude record for a manned spacecraft, reaching a distance of 400,171 kilometers (248,655 mi) from Earth on 7:21 pm EST, April 14, 1970