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Mar 28, 2020

TIL that the reason there are tags on mattresses that say "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law" is the result of laws that require that the contents of the mattress be listed on the label. These laws were passed in a time when many mattresses were filled with a variety of undesirable contents.

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Mar 26, 2020

TIL that from 1897 until 1996 the federal government had a board of tea testers whose job was to make sure that imported tea was good enough to be sold in the US.

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Mar 21, 2020

TIL Mickey Mouse enters the public domain and loses copyright protection on 1st January 2024.

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Mar 18, 2020

TIL A member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was denied the right to wear a colander in ID photos in Holland. Pastafarianism is considered a 'satire' and not a 'serious faith.'

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Feb 18, 2020

TIL that when a lawyer says to the court "My client has instructed me..." they are basically apologising to the judge for breaching protocol and etiquette, but their client is acting like an ass and insists this thing be said. They are pre-emptively asking for forgiveness and understanding.

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Jan 28, 2020

TIL Prince Charles inherits the possessions of anyone who dies in Cornwall without a will or next of kin, a power that in some years has yielded hundreds of thousands of pounds. He funnels the money into charities after deducting his costs.

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Jan 11, 2020

TIL despite being 8 times smaller, Spotify pays music artists twice as much as YouTube does. The music industry makes more money selling vinyl records than from YouTube.

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Jan 11, 2020

TIL two Buddhists who bought £5,000 of live Crustacea and released them into the sea for good karma, were fined £15,000 for ‘untold damage’ to the environment by introducing non-native species.

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Dec 21, 2019

TIL The reason why some cops touch the back of your tailight at traffic stops is because before dashcams it was a way to leave their fingerprint on the car in case something bad happened they had proof they were there

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Nov 11, 2019

TIL It is so cold in Svalbard, they cannot properly bury anyone in a coffin, since the body won't decompose.

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Oct 26, 2019

TIL that the ACLU was originally founded as the Civil Liberties Bureau after World War I broke out in 1917 to oppose the creation of a draft and protect conscientious objectors to World War I.

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Oct 23, 2019

TIL that nearly all criminal cases that go to trial in Japan end in a guilty verdict - the country have a 99.9% conviction rate.

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Apr 13, 2019

TIL In Halden prison in Norway, guards are encouraged to interact, play sports, and eat with the inmates. This is to prevent aggression and create a sense of family. Despite being a maximum security prison, every cell has a flatscreen TV, an en-suite shower and fluffy, white towels.

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