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TIL that Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea aren’t owned by Disney, they’re just controlled by a company that rents the characters

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vjr4 TIL that the American Mustache Institute is very real and their slogan is “Protecting the rights of, and fighting discrimination against mustached Americans, by promoting the growth, care, and culture of the mustache”
BgoJK TIL insulting the King of Thailand can get you life in prison or death even as a foreigner
W7xxX TIL Boston had a horse-drawn railway system that predated its current subway in the 1850s
pY4rb TIL about Alvin Greene, a man who won the South Carolina Democratic Primary for U.S. Senate in 2010 despite having no cell phone, no computer, no lawn signs, no consultants, being unemployed, and living with his dad
oRGdE TIL that a German WWII pilot named Franz Stigler escorted a crippled American bomber to safety instead of shooting it down risking execution. Nearly 50 years later the two pilots found each other and became close friends until they both died in 2008.