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TIL if you write to the Department of the Interior you can get a free buffalo.

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Lajp TIL That in Senior Centre in Düsseldorf they set up a Fake bus stop as a mean to keeps Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off. the idea was so successful that it has been adopted by several other homes across Germany
dZBE TIL that a 17 year old who recruited two other teens to murder her parents - resulting in the death of one and the critical injuries to the other - attempted to appeal on the grounds that she was interviewed by police without parental consent.
1ared TIL An increasing number of schools and companies in Japan encourage their students and employees to cry as a way of relieving stress and improving mental health. There are also people who are called "namida sensei" meaning "tears teacher"
p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
PYrke TIL In 1941, the NKVD (precursor to the KGB) executed around 100,000 people in the space of 5 months.