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TIL that kids who Trick or Treat past the age of 12 in the city of Chesapeake, VA can be fined up to $100 and/or jailed for up to 6 months.

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vP8E4 TIL that at the 2012 Olympics, the North Korean women's football team left the pitch in protest before their match with Colombia after their players appear on screens with South Korea's flag
XEaX8 TIL Xinghai Square, Dalian, China covers a total area of 110 ha (270 acres), making it the largest city square in the world. China's tallest huabiao (19.97 meters high) was once located at the center of the square but it was demolished secretly in 2016 at midnight without explanation
E6o0 TIL Computers can’t generate true random numbers (without measuring external physical phenomena like flipping a coin or cosmic background radiation)
VBBD TIL Second Officer Charles Lightoller confessed years after the sinking of Titanic that binoculars were indeed on board, in a lock box for which no one seemed to have a key.
0wMyN TIL about 4'33", read four thirty-three. It's a music piece by experimental composer John Cage, and instructs the performer(s) to not play the their instruments for the entire four minutes, thirty-three seconds.