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TIL in Jamaica there’s a union for musicians. This is my father’s card from the 1970’s.

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Mob8 TIL the police department of Tenaha, Texas, routinely pulls over drivers from out-of-town and exercises civil asset forfeiture regardless of guilt or innocence, under the threat of felony charges and turning children over to foster services.
4YDN TIL of the vestal virgins. A group of six women recruited at age six to tend the flame of the goddess vesta. Expected to serve for 30 yrs, if their viginity ever came into question they would be buried alive as punishment.
yQnna TIL in the 1920s, Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal was once arrested for displaying Bolshevik symbols, , becoming inebriated in a public bar and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir, the Prime Minister, and the law
b9GLp TIL about the siege of the alcazar during the spanish civil war. The defenders held out for 2 months during which the entire castle was reduced to ruins after heavy artillery bombardement and mines. Their commander refused to surrender even when his son was captured and later executed.
wekJ TIL there is a registered satirical party in Germany named “The Party”(politically). Their youth organisation is the “Hintner Jugend”. Their goals are to rebuild the Berlin Wall, a CEO quota for lazy people and making the tax system even more complicated (among others).