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TIL that Buddhist monks are banned from reincarnating without government permission in China.

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BrYWr TIL of Laura Secord, a Canadian woman who walked 30 km (about 19 miles) to warm British troops about a planned attacked by US troops on Beaver Dams during the War of 1812. There is now a chocolate company named after her.
Meb8A TIL that rats were thought to be carriers of the bubonic plague and that in Sydney, around 200,000 rats were caught to eliminate the disease.
dDe5Z TIL that every book published in the United Kingdom and Ireland has to have one copy kept at the British Library. It gets about 8,000 new books every day, adds 6 miles (9.65 km) of new shelf space annually, and stores over 200,000,000 titles.
w8GP TIL in Thailand, police officers who are caught breaking minor laws are forced to wear Hello Kitty armbands for a few days.
LkA0Z TIL there was a southern fast food chain called Yogi Bear's Honey-Fried Chicken (and fiberglass statues of Yogi, Boo-Boo, Cindy, and Ranger Smith have been dumped into a "graveyard" behind a truck stop in North Carolina).