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TIL in Kazakhstan there is a town where people suddenly started falling asleep for 5 days or longer.

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ZeZp TIL: In 2013, forty year old Heath Campbell strolled into a New Jersey courthouse wearing full Nazi regalia and asked for visitation rights to his toddler claiming “Prisoners get to see their children, murderers get to see their children. What’s so horrible about being a Nazi?”.
epAlL TIL that commercial fishing used to deliberately surround, trap and drown dolphins that would get in the way of the tuna which led to a government act to protect and label tuna caught without harming dolphins as “dolphin safe” tuna.
6EnPl TIL Phuket Province of Thailand is sister cities with Las Vegas, Nevada and Nice, France
OoNPY TIL That English has a subtle stress pattern to identify the Noun or Verb in a related word. For example Record; Record (N) and Record ; Contract (N) and ConTract (V) ; Refuse (N) and Refuse.
5YnnP TIL there is a city in Siberia called Akademgorodok created by Khrushchev to be an academic utopia filled with nothing but scientists with its own schools, single family homes and markets--considered luxury living at the time