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TIL That homeschooling is illegal in >25 countries, including Germany, Greece, Sweeden, Cuba, Brazil and Turkey

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wop5Y TIL that over 150 Japanese people contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease (yes, THAT one) after being implanted with Lyodura, a brain patch illegally harvested from random cadavers
gv5b TIL slow music playing in a restaurant makes perception of time slow by about 13%, and also makes customers buy up to 40% more drinks than normal
nW49d TIL that during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, British embassy staff, with the aid of Hungarian revolutionaries, were able to capture an abandoned Soviet T-54 tank and keep it in the British embassy long enough for British engineers to study the tank and determine its strength and weaknesses.
gYKW TIL that cost of college textbooks has risen 812 percent since 1978, far outpacing the rise in costs for medical services and home prices in USA.
d0L9 TIL Yesterday, some Russians got the day off to procreate, in celebration of the annual “Day of Conception”. Couples that give birth exactly nine months later get a prize: