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TIL that, since the 1970s, women and under-18 men are banned from enter Herbertstraße (part of the red light district of Hamburg) due to prostitutes actively chasing away any women who entered to seek their husbands or boyfriends

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7pBx TIL that a man devoted a year of his life to taking the bible as literally as he could: never wearing two kinds of clothing material, never sitting where a woman on her period might have and even stoning adulterers.
nneo TIL President John F. Kennedy was a methamphetamine addict and suffered from a delusional “psychotic break” in the Carlyle Hotel.
aR89 TIL 50 beavers were introduced into Tierra del Fuego in the 1940s to help start a fur trade. There are now over 100,000, and they have devastated over 16 million hectares.
epno5 TIL there is a statue of Rocky Balboa in the Serbian village of Žitište
7rVOr TIL Mr. Miyagi was a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient. He was part of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team historically one of the most highly decorated regiments in WW2. There is a scene where Daniel picks it up out of a box after he puts a drunk Mr. Miyagi to bed.