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TIL people born in the Pacific Northwest have the cleanest English dialect

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Y95G TIL a Sudanese man, caught having sex with a neighbor’s goat nicknamed Rose, was ordered by the council of elders to pay the neighbor a dowry of 15,000 Sudanese dinars ($75) and to marry the animal.
rVDW TIL that Vince Offer, the ShamWow! guy, used the proceeds from his late night marketed movie, The Underground Comedy Movie, to sue the Church of Scientology.
rNyje TIL that in the early 2000s, Puma and the Cameroonian National Team experimented with new kit designs. In 2002, Cameroon won the African Cup Of Nations wearing sleveless shirts, that were banned by FIFA before the World Cup. In 2004, a one-piece kit was used and FIFA banned that too
XYm8 TIL the Idaho traffic code allows for bicycles approaching a stop sign to slow to a “reasonable speed” but does not mandate a full stop. This is commonly known as the “Idaho Stop”
JYyYV TIL that the USA dropped thousands of food packages over Afghanistan as a way of trying to earn the goodwill of the local population. Unfortunately they were printed in languages the average Afghan couldn't read, and were the exact color as cluster munitions dropped during the same operation.