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TIL that Aladdin was actually Chinese
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TIL it is illegal to spay or neuter your dog in Norway except under specific circumstances regarding health, quality of life, or utility.
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TIL when a Virginia school board tried to ban “To Kill a Mockingbird” as immoral, author Harper Lee wrote a letter asking if the board members were literate and donated money to enroll them in the first grade.
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TIL that in the 1950s, Las Vegas embraced its proximity to nuclear testing in Nevada. Hotels and casinos marketed "atomic tourism," hosting rooftop viewing parties where guests could sip "atomic cocktails" while watching mushroom clouds rise from bomb tests just 65 miles away.
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TIL That sprinkling granulated sugar on a prolapsed rectum is a certified medical procedure putting that thing back where it came from (to be precise, it helps absorbs the moisture).
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TIL about the Baedeker blitz, when the Nazis used German guidebooks to British towns (Baedeker was the Lonely Planet of the day) to select bombing targets that would demoralize the British.