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TIL that Singapore has an official Ethnic Integration Policy that mandates a balanced ethnic representation in public housing blocks and neighbourhoods across the nation-state to prevent the formation of ethnic enclaves.

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P19Ww TIL in South Korea, military members (mandatory for all male citizens) found to be homosexual through a psychology test can either be institutionalized or dishonorably discharged
rN1g4 TIL Beavis and Butthead Do America has a hidden message if you play the desert scene backwards. Only took 26 years....
rNkk0 TIL the hanging boxes on power lines are called Stockbridge dampers and mitigate specific vertical movement (called Aeolian vibration) in the cables that would otherwise result in stress fatigue and potential separation. This is the same vibration that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940.
5YpyB TIL that pigeons and doves are the exact same animals.
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