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TIL about Māori chin tattoos. For Māori women, the traditional female chin tattoo is considered a physical manifestation of their true identity.

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54gp TIL In 2014, a woman was arrested for printing $20k fake bills at home. She took $5 bill with specific watermark, soaked them in degreaser, used toothbrush to scrub off the link and then printed scanned images of $50 or $100 bills over them.
xl47 TIL that during the Holocaust in Poland, a member of the Nazi Party Albert Battel saved over a hundred Jews from liquidation by going into the ghetto with army trucks and transported the Jews to the barracks of the local Wehrmacht platoon, at there they were under the protection of the Wehrmacht.
4YAa TIL Young people in Japan are not just having enough sex and this is a huge concern for the government.
R7lp9 TIL that in 1859 the sun caused a solar storm on earth.The storm was so powerful that aurora was seen as south as Mexico, and Telegraphs systems all over Europe and North America failed to operate.
gEZA TIL that in 2005 Nintendo released a game known as Super Princess Peach. In the game, Mario, Toad and Luigi have been captured by Bowser and Peach must rescue them, as well as collecting the all powerful ‘Vibe Scepter’