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TIL the "flourish of approval" is a check mark like symbol only used in the Kingdom of The Netherlands and its former colonies

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l78wN TIL Alfred Hitchcock planned for a suspenseful chase scene at Disneyland for his upcoming project "The Blind Man", but Walt Disney refused because Hitchcock made "that disgusting movie Psycho" and forbid him to film his projects anywhere in the park.
wjG1 TIL In Japan, if you commit suicide by jumping in front of a Train, Rail Companies charge your family a fee.
dZxd TIL In the infamous 2012 Dehli bus gang-rape case, the victim was not only raped by 6 men, she also had a crooked iron rod forced inside her, rupturing her diaphragm and then had 80% of her intestines removed through her vagina by hand
jNBNj TIL that trees release so called monoterpenes to start the condensation of new clouds to help block the sun and cool themselves if it's too hot.
L7rV TIL that last time when US president formally declared a war supported by Congress was in 1942. Everything since were conflicts without war proclamation.