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TIL The philosopher Mencius moved three times in his childhood as his mom tried to find a suitable environment. When they lived by a cemetery, his mom found him performing burials. After living by the market, he pretended to be a merchant. In the end, his mom moved him to a school and he studied

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awOL0 TIL the Hindu god Krishna had 16,000 junior wives (or 16,100 depending on the source), and would duplicate himself so he could spend the nights with all of them simultaneously
gYPW TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.
Nw01 TIL in Japan it is illegal to dance after midnight. Nightclubs are routinely raided by the police, and undercover agents go in and check if people are dancing.
X06PD TIL right to private copying allows in Switzerland to download music, films and e-books through a tax on all storage media. (Art. 19 Abs. 1 lit. a URG). Copy protection can be removed from purchased software (Art. 39a Abs. 4 URG). File sharing and commercial use are illegal.
awZVy TIL that Abolqasem Ferdowsi wrote the Shahnameh, a Persian Epic Poem of 50,000 rhymed couplets - more than twice the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined! It is considered the world’s longest poem written by a single poet, and is regarded as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.