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TIL: Prostitution Is Thriving although Illegal in Iceland

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M7XM7 TIL: Skegness the town on coast of Britan in Lincolnshire had a Monorail.
6OM8 TIL the city of Dallas, Texas has lost every single one of 82 court cases against the same man, Robert Groden, over several decades.
o4pE TIL that a public defender, Travis Williams, tattoos the names of every defendant whose case he lost in court on his back. He is up to six.
KOgvG TIL "A rule of thumb is that if you see the tsunami, it is too late to outrun it. Even small tsunamis (for example, 6 feet in height) are associated with extremely strong currents, capable of knocking someone off their feet," writes United States Geological Survey (USGS).
gM4OD TIL There is an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe. "That’s 13 galaxies for every living person. Averaging 100 billion stars per galaxy, that’s 1.3 trillion stars, for you alone."