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TIL pseudoscorpions are a thing

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VxGQ TIL that in 1943 the United States Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette that government officials cannot force anyone to participate in patriotic rituals.
e0Ljb TIL that young boys who were vocally talented used to be castrated in order to keep their singing talent. This would prevent them from sexually maturing
6Ej4w TIL that every baseball used in MLB is conditioned with a specific “baseball rubbing mud”, which has been provided by one family for 3 generations.
W7MXB TIL a Belgian princess living in a Belgian castle during WWI was protected due to a sign from a German general that partially read "I order the German soldiers passing by here not to ring the bell and to leave the place untouched" because she was the sister-in-law of Austria-Hungary's emperor.
78eVb TIL that a Dutch woman was denied Swiss naturalization despite having lived there for 39 years, because her 'neighbours' deemed her too annoying and not integrated into Swiss society since she often critized Swiss tradition of hanging large bells on cows' necks