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TIL about "Kranzgeld", which were, until 1998, damages that a man had to pay to a previously virgin woman if he broke off his engagement after having sex

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wLPBo TIL carrots are not standard rabbit food. We think they are because Bugs Bunny ate carrots, but that's because his creator loved the film "It Happened One Night", where Clark Gable eats carrots while talking quickly. Also Gable gets called "Doc" throughout the film.
OGXOL TIL between 1999 and 2015, 736 UK Post Office workers were wrongly convicted for stealing money due to faulty accounting software. Workers were forced to pay back nonexistent losses with their own money and some were even sent to jail for a crime they did not commit.
8eMxL TIL that a school teacher once won a free trip to outer space but the rocketship blew up and everyone died
EgJO0 TIL that SimCity was going to have an NES version along with the SNES version but was then canceled after being in favor of focusing on the SNES version.
VgLB TIL: When Spirited Away won the Academy Award for Animation, Hayo Miyazaki personally chose not to attend the show because he “didn’t want to visit a country that was bombing Iraq”