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TIL there is a law that prohibits people in Thailand from owning more than 120 unapproved playing cards.

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vlbK TIL that believing that insurance was seen as not trusting in God, and viewing social security as a form of old age and survivors insurance, the Amish refuse to pay the premium or accept the benefits of social security.
R5QP6 Til that pills absorb fastest if you lie on your right side, not standing up
wAnE TIL via Ancestry, that my family was a part of a eugenics study, that claimed that my grandmother was the “mother of criminals” with over 100 prostitutes and 76 convicted criminals in the family line, the family was urged not to reproduce.
log7V TIL that the trenches on the western front of ww1 from the North Sea all the way down to Switzerland were dug in only just over a month in the race to the sea when the allies and central powers kept trying to outflank each other.
J1o9k TIL in a study published in Nature Communications, researchers used a deep-learning system to sift through a database of more than 40 million snake venom peptides. In a matter of hours, the algorithm flagged 386 compounds with the molecular hallmarks of next-generation antibiotics.