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TIL that in the city of Iruma, Japan keeps track of their elderly citizen who have dementia by having placing a waterproof QR sticker on their fingernails or toenails

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VMpXZ TIL that North Korea's diplomatic mission to the UN has 1,300 unpaid NYC parking tickets going back to the 1990s, owing more than $156,000.
ANMw4 TIL about Arctic Hysteria (also known as Piblokto), a culture-bound syndrome that mostly affects the female Inuit population. Symptoms include tearing off clothes, running naked through the snow, screaming, throwing things, and performing other wild behaviors.
W7YrN TIL that in 1956, an overnight DJ asked his audience to go to bookstores and ask for a non-existent book called "I, Libertine". Eventually, the book made it to the NYT bestseller list.
V0eZ TIL the inventor of the land mine detector - Polish Lieutenant Józef Kosacki - didn’t patent his invention, instead deciding to gift it to the British Army in 1941.
xVXdo TIL the average $1 bill has been contaminated with vaginal bacteria, microbes from mouths, DNA from pets and viruses and drugs