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TIL an American charity pays drug addicts $300 to get sterilized

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OX57 TIL that Japanese bathrooms have a button that plays the flushing sound to mask the sound of your own business.
xVgOk TIL one of the main reasons why double jeopardy laws were overturned in England & Wales was to ensure that the murderers of Stephen Lawrence were brought to justice. The overturn meant that you can now be brought to trial again for murder in light of substantial new evidence.
B05L TIL there is a “Zip Bomb” called 42.zip that when downloaded is only 42 Kilobytes, but actually contains 4,500,000 Gigabytes uncompressed. The file crashes computers when Anti-Virus software comes across it during a routine scan and tries to open the entire file, using up all the computer’s memory.
YD9B TIL: The Department of Education can call for SWAT team raids to search your house over unpaid student loans
78oAb TIL Origins of masturbation are traced to primates 40 million years ago