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TIL that German children are taught the dangers of misbehavior through traumatic stories. These include a child having his thumbs cut off for thumbsucking and a girl who burns to death for playing with matches

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l7BNB TIL India's population is expected to peak at 1.67B in 2063 and will then start declining
a7do TIL in 2002, Christopher Dorner and a classmate found a bag containing $8,000 that belonged to the ‘Enid Korean Church of Grace’. They turned it into the police. When asked their motive, Dorner said “It’s an integrity thing. My mother taught me honesty and integrity.”
N7MZ6 TIL of the Saola, or Asian Unicorn, a bovine so rare it has been photographed in the wild only 4 times. When it was discovered in 1992 it was the first large mammal to be defined in over half a century.
Z15a TIL Every car made after 2002 has an “Emergency Release” cable inside the trunk in case of kidnapping.
D1ZdJ TIL that the title of the Radiohead album "OK Computer" comes from a line in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "OK, computer, I want full manual control now." The song "Paranoid Android" refers to "Hitchhiker" character Marvin, the Paranoid Android.