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TIL of the biblical practice of shmita - every seven years, farmland would be left fallow. Any crops that grew were free for the taking by all, and all debts were negated.

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LWKv TIL a mysterious lady dressed with a headscarf like a Russian grandma, the Babushka Lady, was seen at the JFK assassination taking pictures of the event, and the FBI publicly asked for her to step forward with any pictures she took but she never came forward
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WM4L TIL Smell is copyrightable, including soaps, perfume, and cologne.
9wAlm TIL about Hitomi Soga-Jenkins, a Japanese woman who was abducted to North Korea with her mother in 1978. Her mother disappeared and was never seen again. She was given a Korean name and married an American defector. They had two daughters. The family returned to Japan in 2004 where they live today.
KYkNJ TIL a 1993 study in the British Medical Journal found that in Bristol, unemployment rates and psychiatric hospital admission rates for people under 65 were very strongly correlated, with unemployment rates explaining over 90% of the variation