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TIL from 1906 to 1980, New Hebrides (today Vanuatu) was a French-British condominum, and both powers had separate administrations and courts. Colonists could choose to be under which law they wanted to live while natives were tried in their own laws

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b97WQ TIL candle wax has ”memory”. If you don’t burn it all the way out to the edges the first time you light it, it will only burn to the same point it was melted at the first time. Resulting in a “tunnel”, faster burn time, and wasting the wax that doesn’t melt.
m6Bx TIL of Kalief Browder, arrested in the spring of 2010, at age sixteen, for a robbery he insisted he had not committed, who spent 3 years at the Rikers Island prison without being convicted of a crime (2 of which was in solitary) and without seeing a trial. He committed suicide after his release.
1aZWV TIL From the 1940s until the 1970s, Ivy League schools including Harvard and Yale took nude photos of all incoming freshmen.
BrXQD TIL Between ages of 17 and 29, most men lose their child or juvenile hairline, distinguished by its relatively low, straight-across appearance, rounded corners. Only a small percentage of Caucasian men (around 5%) retain their juvenile hairlines for life
Wkrg9 TIL about a Horror themed Japanese Anime series called Ghost Stories that was not well received in Japan and when it was dubbed over in English the voice acting cast were given free rein to say whatever they wanted. This led to the entire series becoming a Dark Comedy rather than Horror.