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TIL The Vietnam government executes corporate executives convicted of financial crimes or corporate malfeasance.

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4kA1a TIL Disney/Disneyland formulated 2 specific colors (Go Away Green and Blending Blue) to help “erase” backstage buildings and camouflage parts of the park that are under construction.
EWBP TIL Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ was labelled “immoral” and banned in a Virginia school. She wrote a letter determining school board member illiteracy as the issue causing this decision and donated to a fund hoping “to enroll the (School Board) in any first grade of its choice”.
6Evpm TIL Shiraz wine has been produced in Shiraz, Iran since the 9th century. Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution there were 300 wineries in Iran, now there are none.
gM8B9 TIL that Duke, the Great Pyrenees, has been elected not once, not twice, but three times as mayor of Cormorant, MN, US. And that he’s not the only animal current serving as an elected city official.
ANrX7 TIL that dangerous smugglers commonly partnered with young Italian boys to sell smuggled cigarettes, so they could help support their families postwar.