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TIL Squatting is legal in Belgium

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9ZEM TIL New Zealand soldiers carved a gigantic Kiwi into the side of a hill in England right after WWI. It’s still visible today.
69mAJ TIL the leader of a militia based out of Washington state moonlighted as a fake drug cartel baron as part of an extortion scam on his followers, sending death threats to them and their families.
noYG TIL that 3 mths after Charlie Chaplin died his corpse was stolen by two Swiss mechanics in order to extort money from the family. The robbers were captured and Chaplin’s body was found eleven weeks later. To prevent further attempts, he was reburied under concrete.
ZQ8D TIL Russia has a retirement age of 55 for Women and 60 for Men.
nlAP TIL in 2010 a professor went on a diet consisting mainly of Twinkies to prove weight loss was from calorie deficit, not nutrition.