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TIL that in Turkey, homosexual men don't have to join the military, but they have to prove it by means of a medical doctor via a Pink Certificate.

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6mN7 TIL that only 3 WWE wrestlers uses their full, birth name. Brock Lesnar, John Cena, and Mark Henry
VW8m TIL that during the Parsley Massacre, the Dominican soldiers would grab a parsley plant and ask what it was called. If the person couldn’t roll the R in the Spanish word (Perejil) they were executed. Up to 30,000 people might have been killed through that method.
0Ab5 TIL 33% of US Tourists visiting Scotland believe the Haggis is an actual animal, and a quarter thought they could catch one.
NXAxe TIL why the traffic lights are red yellow green ; the first LED were ever created was red and then green was invented and the mix of two is yellow and the blue LED took 30+ years to get invented and thus creating RGB light and the modern color panels ..,
AN057 TIL Riding Big Thunder Mountain at Disney World Can Help Pass Kidney Stones