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TIL Bounty hunting is currently legal in only two countries: the Philippines and the United States

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l7XA1 TIL If you call 911 by mistake, You should not hang up. Rather you should let the dispatcher know what happened so they know there isn’t an emergency
b6gB0 TIL not long after the Vietnam War, Vietnam’s army invaded Cambodia and stopped a genocide.
Wkm6B TIL People born deaf with schizophrenia see disembodied hands signing to them, as opposed to "hearing" voices
PYbrn TIL that many European maps during the Middle Ages had the East on top instead of the North, thus "to orient" meant to align the map to the East, the Orient.
0dEMv TIL that the national anthem of the Netherlands, "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe", known simply as "Wilhelmus"; is the oldest national anthem in the world dating back to the late 1560s.