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TIL that a man in Taiwan was imprisoned for ten years because Chang Kai-shek thought that a Popeye comic he translated was a personal insult

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6EwaX TIL that Japan has vending machines that dispense used women’s underwear, puppies, slushees, and other very unique items.
XEvbR TIL putting LED lights on float lines of 864 fishing gillnets reduced the bycatch of sea turtles by 74.4% & by 70.8% for dolphins, whales, & porpoises. The same amount of targeted fish were caught by both 864 lighted gillnets & 864 unlighted gillnets in a study of 3 ports in Peru from 2015 - 2018.
gMl08 TIL Standard Arabic, the Arabic taught in a majority of schools, is based off of the language Prophet Mohammad spoke. It is a language that nobody naturally speaks, and is preserved through formal education and news broadcasts. Egyptian Arabic is the most widely-understood dialect
R7g09 TIL that the worst building collapse in history killed 1100 in 2013. The building owner had bribed many official and investigators to conceal the many irregularities during construction. In the resulting trial, the owner was given just six months bail.
kOd5W TIL that organ donation is on an opt-out basis in Singapore. Citizens who opt-out have a lower priority of receiving an organ should they need one.