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TIL The Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) have been sending debtors to work the extremely hazardous cleanup at Fukushima to pay off their gambling/drug debts. Most don’t have the proper training to do the job right.

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vPRGL TIL of in 1748, the first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen. But the history of the ice makers begins with Oliver Evans, an American inventor who designed the first refrigeration machine in 1805 because Mr. Cullen never used his discovery for practices.
l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.
WNxX TIL that on August 7th 1994 in Oakville Washington, mysterious gelatinous blobs began falling from the sky that induced illness in a number of people. The blobs were analyzed by scientists and found to contain human white blood cells with no nuclei. The source of the blobs was never uncovered
yxVV TIL that when Patrick Stewart first saw an X-Men comic he asked, “What am I doing on the front of a comic book?”
kJ1Ee TIL that during the 'leech craze' of the 1800s, leech collectors (who were usually women) would wade into ponds with their skirts raised to attract the leeches to their bare legs. Some used animals—such as horses that were too old to work—instead of their own bodies to catch the leeches