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TIL that in Spain women cannot commit gender-based violence under the current legal definitions.

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ZpDx4 TIL Germany's law mandates up to one-year imprisonment for failing to assist someone in danger or involved in an accident
P1ELG TIL the Vietnamese people celebrate progressing to another year of life—i.e., their birthday—together, on the first day of their new year, Tét, calculating Year 1 based on their actual birthdates.
0wwVy TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
LQp0r TIL that there is such a thing as a two-story outhhouse
GAJ57 TIL Chamorro is the language spoken by the majority of Guam's residents followed by Filipino languages like Kapampangan