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QJrrp TIL high school sports is something that is unique in the US. In most countries in the world, schools don't have sports teams.
ZpLap TIL that in Japan, it is common practice among married couples for the woman to fully control the couple's finances. The husbands' hand over their monthly pay and receive an allowance from their wives.
16gJ8 TIL that Belize and Guatemala are currently in a massive border dispute that has persisted for hundreds of years
M1e7 TIL Thomas Jefferson and John Adams once traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon to visit Shakespeare’s birthplace. While there, they took a knife to one of Shakespeare’s chairs so they could take home some wood chips as souvenirs.
9gBp TIL Before the introduction of the catacombs, there was once a cemetery so overflowing with bodies in central Paris they made soap with the fat of the corpses and had houses with bones protruding from the rooftops of adjacent houses.