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TIL the 2020 Olympics will take place in Tokyo, as predicted in the manga Akira in 1982

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5YJW8 TIL In 2016, more than half of all Americans forfeited vacation days, amounting to 206 million unused vacation days worth some $66.4 billion, and those employees who forfeit their vacation days do not perform as well as the ones who use all their time
ayV9 TIL the Ancient Romans had a method for choosing the best puppies out of a litter which involved surrounding a litter with an oil-soaked string and setting it on fire. The mother dog would jump over the ring of flames and rescue each puppy one by one, it was believed, in order of their merit.
J5MV TIL of the ‘American Hippo Bill’, a bill from 1910 to import and release hippos into the bayous of Louisiana so that they could eat the water hyacinth clogging the rivers and serve as food help solve the American meat crisis. It was almost passed.
Me8ka TIL about the Black Hole Era, a period of time in the future where the universe will spend the vast majority of it's overall life shuttered in absolute darkness with all the stars in the night sky having died out and space itself dominated by nothing but super massive black holes for eons upon eons
XjP TIL Robin Williams called Spielberg every two weeks to cheer him up with various jokes during the filming of Schindler’s List.