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TIL Alberta is the only place in the world where you are legally allowed to throw coins at strippers

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16nLW TIL wooden norias of the Orontes river in Hama, Syria were driven by water flowing underneath them pushing the wheel's paddles. Maintained by skilled carpenters till recently due to lack of money and skilled craftsmen, norias delivered up to 200,000 litres of water per hour to timeshared channels
jN11N TIL of a British game show called ‘Beat the Crusher’, in which couples competed to win a new car. The losing team had their own car crushed right before their very eyes.
9mMm TIL of a character in Sesame Street that wanted to demolish the street in order to build Grump Tower, named after himself, Ronald Grump.
Ok71 TIL: The elementary school game, “Heads Up, Seven Up,” was a tool used by educators to determine students that were more likely to cheat. If you weren’t very good chances are you were more honest.
va64 TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.