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TIL Shishi-odoshi, used in japanese gardens as part of the visual and aural design, were originally designed to scare away animals such as deer or boars from grazing on the plants nearby.

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6J97 TIL that the call sign “Air Force One” was created in 1954 to avoid confusion, after an incident where a commercial flight and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s plane carried the same number in the same airspace.
yVl8J TIL both Joseph Stalin (1939, 1942) and Adolf Hitler (1938) have won Time Person of the Year.
vP0L TIL humans are actually more skilled at identifying caricatures of people than photographs of them.
WxNA TIL More women file bankruptcy then men every year. The typical bankruptcy filer in the USA is a white woman, with some higher education, have a job and are married, with credit card debt being the greatest stressor leading to bankruptcy.
awBRZ TIL that cat purring has the ability to aid in cat and human healing of broken bones, joint and tendon repair, and wound healing due to purring at a low frequency between 25 and 140 Hz.