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TIL Some schools in the US use "clip charts" in school to discourage poor behaviour

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Z8x5G TIL despite being a small and densely populated country, the Netherlands is the world's second biggest exporter of food. More than half of its land is used for agriculture and horticulture.
e0J8L TIL that in response to the 2013 Horse Meat Scandal, Iceland tests find meat pies contain no meat at all
DPpV TIL Argentina has a radio station that is broadcast from a mental institution in Buenos Aires and interviews the patients. It has 12 million listeners and is actually called called “Crazy Radio”
grbVy TIL about bobbit worms, 10-foot long carnivorous worms with iridescent exoskeletons that burrow in long tunnels, before ambushing prey with their highly sharp retractable mandibles. They are named after the John and Lorena Bobbitt case, in which a woman severed her husband’s penis in his sleep.
E8Qx TIL that lasagne is the plural form of lasagna