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TIL that a daycare in Israel had an issue of parents picking kids up late and decided to start punishing the parents by making them pay a fine. Surprisingly, the opposite effect occured and more parents started leaving there kids at the daycare and picking them up late.

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e0BgE TIL Vietnam is building its first 2 metro systems: one in Hanoi (capital) with Chinese funding/money and the other in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) with Japanese expertise. Hanoi's is progressing more quickly but has had multiple accidents, one deadly. HCM City's has had more delays but no accidents.
Eg95W TIL of Carlos, Prince of Asturias. Due to him having four great-grandparents instead of the maximum of eight, he had numerous issues such as roasting animals alive and whipped a serving girl when he was eleven. He became so mentally unstable that he died in solitary confinement at 23 years old.
kOgW7 TIL the island of Montserrat is known as "The Emerald Isle of the Caribbean." Its inhabitants, most of whom descend from Irish indentured servants and enslaved Africans, speak a dialect of English that has features of both Irish and Afro-Caribbean dialects.
g1ED TIL the texas GOP had once rejected the teaching of higher order of thinking (critical thinking skills) out of fear of students challenging fixed beliefs and parental authority.
LZW0 TIL that the ancient Greeks didn’t wear pants because they found them “ridiculous”. The Romans didn’t wear them because it was seen as uncivilized and only Barbarians wore pants.