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TIL Japan is the vending machine capital of the world and that machines can dispense free supplies in the event of disasters

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wLBLP TIL Carole King has written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005
VMxpk TIL: Entering a radius of 5 nautical miles around North Sentinel Island is illegal under Indian law. In Jan 2006, 2 Indian fishermen were fishing in prohibited waters and were killed by the Sentinelese, an indigenous people in voluntary isolation who have repeatedly attacked approaching vessels.
dNkZ TIL lead acetate (the form of lead found in lead paints) was once used as an artificial sweetener
lRwV TIL that during WW2 Peru deported its entire Japanese ethnic population to the US to live in the Camps
GAgmj TIL: a German SS commander, Priebke, was personally responsible for murdering 335 Italians, confessed. escaped to Argentina, eventually taken back to Italy, tried, convicted, and died happily at home at the ripe old age of 100.