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TIL there is a sculpture on the grounds of the CIA which I has four encrypted messages. The last of them has not been solved in 30 years.

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Y8wZ TIL that Japan addresses don’t have street names. Addresses are from largest to smallest units = Prefecture(city) - ward - district - block - building number.
xVoOb TIL of Sada Abe, a Japanese prostitute who killed her lover after erotically asphyxiating him repeatedly, cut off his penis and testicles, committed necrophilia with his severed penis, went to jail, wrote a book, became an actor, and eventually joined a nunnery, among other things. [NSFW]
XyE8 TIL that despite common misconception, ice worms are a real species that tunnel through glaciers. If their body temperature exceeds 5 degrees celsius they melt.
wk9o TIL Jon Stewart proposed to his wife through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of the crossword editor at The New York Times.
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