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TIL Japan is offering smiling classes because some people forgot how to do so during the pandemic

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NXAG6 TIL of the Iffland-Ring, a ring awarded to the most significant actor of the German-speaking theatre according to its previous owner, who pass on the ring by will. It was also considered cursed when, in 1954, Albert Bassermann's candidates all died shortly after being nominated as the recipient.
7o7M TIL Michael Jordan’s dad, James Jordan was murdered by a man wearing a Michael Jordan t-shirt.
E1v8V TIL Woodie Guthrie suffered from Huntington’s, a degenerative genetic disease. Though he lived to 55, both of his daughters died at 41.
kJ7dm TIL some frogs in South/Central America have the rare ability to become nearly transparent when they're sleeping but look opaque reddish-brown when hopping around. Using light and ultrasound imaging technology they found the frogs concentrate their blood in their liver, draining them of most color.
pjpb TIL of the steamship Eastland, which, in 1915, capsized while still tied to the dock in Chicago. New safety laws which rushed through Congress after the Titanic sinking mandated so much safety gear installed that the ship was top heavy and rolled over, killing 844 people.