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TIL it is illegal to tattoo in South Korea if you are not a licensed medical doctor.

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NDNP TIL: Sioux Indians peacefully surrendered as their land was being stolen, then still were attacked by US forces in the Wounded Knee Massacre
awEy0 TIL When legendary artist Salvador Dali went to a screening of a new surrealist art film in 1936 he became enraged and knocked over the projector half thru claiming the film maker had stolen the idea for the film from Dali's mind. He yelled: "He stole it from my subconscious!"
l7XeV TIL: 5 pin bowling was invented in Canada - and is mostly only played in Canada
MeaYb TIL there are two competing symbols of medicine in the US: the Rod of Asclepius (a staff with a single snake coiled around it) and the Caduceus (with two snakes and a pair of wings). The two are completely unrelated ancient symbols.
M1EA TIL that Victorian market sellers used back slang (reversing the letters in words) in order to talk behind customers’ backs, giving birth to words such as ‘yob.’