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TIL Strippers make significantly more money while they’re ovulating.

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0oO5 TIL the shoshinsha mark is a green and yellow symbol that new Japanese drivers must place on their cars for a year; conversely, the fukushi mark (orange and yellow) is for elderly drivers. Both marks warn other drivers that the marked driver is not very skilled due to inexperience or old age.
p8kAN TIL that NCAA basketball players’ numbers are required to be base 6 so that referees can signal the two numbers with fingers on each hand.
M7JkA TIL that during the War of 1812, Britain occupied and intended to annex the modern American state of Maine, even setting up a government for the “Crown Colony of New Ireland”, which collected £10,000 in tax revenues by war’s end
n7G TIL Russians take guns into space to protect themselves against bears if they land off-course.
WEN4 TIL Pubic lice are disappearing because of bikini waxes