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TIL The US is “leasing” the Guantanamo Bay land from Cuba and writes them annual checks, which they do not recognize and have not cashed for decades.

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VM98Z TIL about Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hotel that has been running for over 1300 years, ever since it began in 705. It has been ran over 52 generations by the same family, which still operates it today.
NXA1J TIL of Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, a fisherman who in 1984 survived 6 hours in 5 °C cold water after his ship sank and then trekked barefoot for 3 hours across lava fields before reaching safety. Despite only wearing shirt, sweater and jeans, he showed almost no symptoms of hypothermia or vasodilatation.
1WGP TIL That Pokémon Gold and Silver were developed by a small team of only 4 programmers. This is why the game took over 3 years to develop.
JYY51 TIL that most commercial bread contains an amino acid that mostly comes from the floors of hair salons in China
X07A8 TIL Prehistory refers to the period of human history before writing systems were adopted, so the end of prehistory is different in different places. Prehistory in Australia ended in 1788.