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TIL Thai Police Officers who are guilty of committing minor transgressions such as coming late or parking at the wrong spot have to wear a bright pink HELLO KITTY armband for several days as punishment.

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xVa70 TIL Iron Fertilization could capture 10-25% of annual carbon emissions, along with creating clouds that could cool the environment even more.
kJAAg TIL in December 1967, then sitting Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt went missing while swimming and was never found. Shortly after, a community swimming pool in Melbourne was named after him...
4XGbw TIL if you don't enjoy music you may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia, which affects three-to-five per cent of the population.
epa9b TIL that Japanese war crimes in China were so severe that Nazi officials unsuccessfully pleaded with Hitler to intervene.
E14ep TIL: Jimmy Page considers Stairway to Heaven a masterpiece. Robert Plant does not share his fondness. Plant has referred to it as a "wedding song" and insists that his favourite Led Zeppelin song is "Kashmir."