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TIL Winston Churchill left behind a debt of Rs. 13/- at the Bangalore Club, India which was written off by the committee on 01.06.1899 as an ‘irrecoverable sum’.

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ANA14 TIL "Chief Heat Officer" is a thing now
Va7k TIL of Max Yasgur, the man who hosted Woodstock on his dairy farm. He got threats from his neighbors, but said “if the generation gap is to be closed, we older people have to do more than we have done.” He also got angry when people were trying to sell water and provided it free of charge.
Yp8PA TIL that western sahara nationality law stuipulates that "children must respect their parents".
5YndB TIL in Brazil it's so common to get robbed in the streets that a lot of people carry an extra cellphone (they call it the "thief's phone") so they can give it to the robber when the crime happens.
oBBMW TIL about the Sotadic Zone, a supposed geographic zone proposed by explorer and orientalist Richard F. Burton in which homosexuality is prevalent and celebrated among the indigenous inhabitants