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TIL that the municipal government of Paris passed a resolution to prohibit Tom Cruise from becoming an honorary citizen of the city.

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R71b7 TIL Cwtch (Welsh; pronounced ‘kutch’, rhyming with ‘butch’) is a special hug that makes you feel safe in the world.
rRjBx TIL roughly 70% of businesses in Sicily still pay protection money to the Sicilian Mafia.
6jdm TIL of Kiyoko Matsumoto, who in 1933 committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. Japan. This started a trend in Japan, and in the year after her death 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater
awpnJ TIL - Disney once sued three day care centers in Florida for unauthorized use of their characters (5 foot high likenesses on murals on the buildings) who had to remove them. Universal in turn let the centers use Scooby Doo, Flintstones & other of their Hanna-Barbera characters.
yVAmX TIL in WWI the Secret Service discovered that semen was found to be useful as invisible ink with the motto "Every man his own stylo." It was eventually discontinued because of the smell.