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TIL that police officers in one state in India are given a slight pay upgrade for having a moustache

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Y7ReA Today I learned that in Japanese zoos, zookeepers dress as tigers as training for zoo escapes
WDZN TIL that Verizon have developed a knife that utilizes air pressure to slice through lawns so that engineers can lay fibre optic cables without causing any unwanted damage. The tool is able to cut through the grass, but does not break sprinkler pipes and gas lines.
p6x8 TIL The script for Being John Malkovich was written exclusively for John Malkovich (without his knowledge). New Line Cinema dropped the film after asking “Why the fuck can’t it be being Tom Cruise?” When John Malkovich first read the script he was “half intrigued and half horrified.”
ne50G TIL There is an urban legend that the city of Berwick was at war with Russia from 1853 till the 1960's, when the mayor signed a treaty. The myth spawns from Berwick's absence from the Treaty of Paris that ended the Crimean War, in reality Berwick was not included in the original declaration of war.
X01BP TIL that from 1991 until 2019, women were not allowed to wear trousers in Sudan.