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TIL Japan outlawed production of child pornography in 1999 and just outlawed possession of child pornography in June 2014

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APJd TIL In December 2009, a campaign launched on Facebook made Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name” the number-one single in the UK for Christmas, which had been dominated for four consecutive years from 2005 by winners from the popular TV show The X Factor.
YpYQP TIL oilman Charles Hipp owned a beloved pet lion named Blondie in the 50s. He even tried to register her in a children's fishing tournament one year.
0Byj TIL that for centuries in mainland Europe groups of people would just start dancing for days to months at a time & no one knows why. They broke ribs, collapsed bridges, and even died until in the 17th century the behavior halted abruptly and completely.
6EP1Q TIL of the Dutch mimicry study: Waitresses who repeated their customers orders increase their tips by 70% over those who positively reinforce the order ("sure", "great choice"), Suggesting that we favor those who mimic our behaviors.
W700d TIL the first modern pharmaceutical medicine was invented in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, a German who extracted the main active chemical from opium in his laboratory and named it morphine, after the Greek god of sleep