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TIL in Thailand, police officers who are caught breaking minor laws are forced to wear Hello Kitty armbands for a few days.

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loKva TIL that people from other countries also adopt American babies (referred to as an “outgoing adoption”) and the babies are primarily all African American
keD7 TIL there is a law in the UK, “Clare’s Law”, that gives you the right to make enquires about your partners criminal record. For example: Your girlfriend could find out if you have been abusive in previous relationships.
xMPB TIL, Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was so notorious for cheating on his wife with attractive women who attended sobriety meetings that his colleagues later started calling this type of lechery the thirteenth step.
rRMKW TIL that 80,000 people or 5% of the population of Bali was executed during the massacres of suspected communists in Indonesia in 1965-66, many on those white sand beaches.
n0Ob TIL that in WW2 an American popular culture trend resulted in people graffiti-ing “Killroy was here” across Europe, which convinced Hitler that Kilroy was a spy and Stalin even investigated trying to find out who Kilroy was.