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TIL that in 2004 the Republic of Georgia fired 30,000 police officers (almost the entire traffic police force) due to corruption and built glass police stations to encourage an image of transparency.Since then crime in Georgia has dropped and the public confidence in the police has risen drastically

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yVJ0w TIL: Wife selling was a practice in England for almost 2 centuries with last incident being in 1913 where one was sold to a coworker for £1. It ended unhappy marriages as divorces were expensive. Eventually there were public auctions that the wife had to agree to. You can even buy back your wife.
a8YvJ TIL that it's illegal to make or sell products with dog or cat fur in the United States
4kdPb TIL that glacier mice are are colonies of wandering moss, observed as far apart as Alaska and Uganda. They move at least an inch a day as a herd and in a non-random fashion. Though they reproduce asexual, the conditions for them to form, or the the nature of their movement, has yet to be explained.
9DQ7 TIL that from 1952 to 1956, billions of Kent Micronite cigarettes were sold with a filter made from asbestos. The new filter was marketed as “the greatest health protection in cigarette history.”
yQMNe TIL of Setara Hussainzada, the first woman to ever sing in a TV program in Afghanistan. She received numerous death threads and has been force to live in exile.