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TIL if your property is foreclosed in Spain, you will have to work for the bank to pay off your loan.

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AD87 TIL: Gas stations (and other merchants) can’t have a “minimum purchase amount” when you use a credit/debit card…regardless of what they try to tell you…
mAnx TIL On this day (February 15) 2416 years ago, Socrates was sentenced to death by people of Athens.
49gw TIL In the mid 1800’s millions of American children learned in school that one taste of alcohol could lead to blindness, madness or death. And there was the possibility too, the children were told, of spontaneous combustion; just one drink of alcohol might cause their bodies to go up in flames.
8aEpK TIL that switching from leaded to unleaded fuel in the 1970’s has been linked to a 56% decrease in violent crime during the 1990’s.
QJN1k TIL that US POW, Jeremiah Denton, blinked a message in morse code whilst on Vietnamese television, spelling the word "torture." This informed the CIA of conditions in Vietnamese captivity.