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TIL the concept of PH was invented to make better Beer.

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YakB TIL that there are over 100 tribes around the world who reject contact with the outside world.
abm9 TIL it is illegal to tattoo in South Korea if you are not a licensed medical doctor.
R5DNl TIL that between the years 1400 - 1700, nearly 100,000 people were persecuted for witchcraft in Europe and North America. It is estimated that roughly 60,000 of these people were executed.
gr5VL TIL James Caan ordered a hit (non lethal) on Joe Pesci in 1982 over an unpaid $8000 hotel bill
E1w77 TIL a Belgian mayor hired a DJ to play a music set as a way to drive out some visiting gypsies with loud music. The plan backfired as the gypsies just came out to party, the mayor received international bad press and, since no one had bothered to pay necessary composers’ rights, a 100 euro fine.