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TIL If you die in Amsterdam with no next of kin and no-one to attend your funeral, a poet will write a poem for you and recite it at your funeral.

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1a74d TIL the parade scene in Ferris Bueller Day off was shot during the actual parade and Nobody knew what it was including all the people on the reviewing stand, including the governor.
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wkDW TIL that until 2007, it was completely legal for women in New Zealand to rape or sexually abuse children, being that no laws existed which legislated against such crimes.