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TIL that days are associated with certain colors in Thailand

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5VloQ TIL the 1958 song Rumble by Link Wray was banned on several radio stations in the US for glorifying juvenile delinquency, despite having no lyrics at all
ya TIL that life expectancy in Cuba is higher than in the United States
4XGoJ TIL early sections of San Francisco were built upon ships abandoned by prospectors during the California Gold Rush. Many were intentionally run aground to become bars and hotels. Now, hundreds of wooden ships lay beneath the city streets and a portion of their subway goes through the hull of one.
M7VDW TIL the UK had been sending convicts to America for decades before the revolution there made them switch to Australia
ADyel TIL about the Montreal Protocol of 1987, which is the only environmental treaty signed by every country in the world to stop the depletion of the ozone layer. Thanks to the treaty, 98% of ozone-depleting substances have been phased out and 2 million people are saved from skin cancer each year.