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TIL Bhutan was the first country to make smoking illegal in public places in 2005

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A8El TIL of the urumi, a flexible whip sword no longer used in battle, but still practiced as an extremely dangerous martial art.
RaA1 TIL Disney was sued by hyena researches for defamation of character because of their negative portrayal of hyenas in The Lion King.
jN9Zn TIL that Scottie Pippen's real first name is actually Scotty
R7vDl TIL In 1862 Lincoln signed the Morrill Act which took 10.7 million acres from 250 tribes creating violence-backed land-grab universities as the root of higher education, economic development, and improved quality of life. Lincoln ordered 38 Dakota resistance hanged, the largest ever mass execution.
XK6X TIL that during World War 2, the British captured Germans and put them in a bugged mansion where they served them wine and food and thus they were able to gather important intelligence from casual conversations between the ‘prisoners’ that helped them greatly win the war