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TIL Porn is illegal in Ukraine, unless it is for medical use.

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PD8E TIL: There is a 500-year-old Beer Purity Law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding.
b9e1j TIL - Canadian researchers have discovered a new kind of organism that's so different from other living things that it doesn't fit into the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom, or any other kingdom used to classify known organisms.
Q1kX TIL: the 19th amendment was ratified due to one vote, cast by Harry Burn. He was originally against women’s sufferage, until he received a letter from his mother.
78kkx TIL There is no period in Dr Pepper after it was removed in the 1950s because the logo at the time made it resemble "Di: Pepper"
XEDYR TIL of "Zero", a soccer stadium in Brazil in which the midfield line is aligned with the Equator - zero latitude, which makes each team defending one hemisphere.