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TIL, That 1 In Every 10 Europeans Were Conceived In An IKEA Bed

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woPEP TIL Greeks put up protective magic hermai - stone block bearded male heads with genitals "at the appropriate height" - marked crossings, boundaries, outside houses and at public buildings, and were also signposts with distances. Outside Athenian homes hermai were rubbed with olive oil for good luck.
W7N0o TIL I learned that the US bombing of Cambodia in the 1970s was requested / approved by the Cambodian government
OWrY TIL that the longest prison sentence ever received was 141,078 years, handed out to Thai national Chamoy Thipyaso for her part in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded 16,000 investors.
8aG0X TIL, the Midnight Club was a secret street racing team in Tokyo, bound by a strict moral code that put pedestrian/motorist safety first. The club disbanded in 1999 when a race turned accident killed innocent drivers
Qbjd TIL that many Chinese people use phone-number style e-mail addresses because hanzi characters cannot easily be used, numbers are easier to remember than letters, and their pronunciation can offer other interpretations.