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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #78: Happy New Year! #Takanakuy
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Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takanakuy
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Takanakuy is held in some parts of Peru where entire villages ring in the new year by getting drunk and beating the crap out of each other. The idea is to settle old scores and grudges, and start the new year with a clean slate. The results are legally binding.
It's unclear how healthy this is, but it certainly can't make political debates any worse.

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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #260: Prawo Jazdy.
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#prawojazdy #police #ireland #polish #ignobel #ignobelprize #garda #gardasiochana irishpolice #racism #casualracism #baddriving #baddrivers #funfacts #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselsssfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

Prawo Jazdy was Ireland's worst driver, committing over 50 offenses from 2004 to 200%.
On every encounter with the Garda Siochána (Irish Police), he gave a different address, avoiding punishment for repeat offenses. In 2009, a hunt for this mysterious criminal revealed that he didn't exist, because "Prawo Jazdy" is Polish for "driver's license." For their efforts, the Garda was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009.

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