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TIL: That for 3 weeks after 911, the most searched for phrase on Google was ‘Nostradamus’

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XgDX TIL Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster for creating a monopoly on ticket sales. Pearl Jam wanted to charge no more than $18.50 for tickets in ’94, with service fees of no more than $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, saying that it needed at least $2 in fees simply to cover its own costs.
b9QbE TIL that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima killed or injured over 90 percent of the doctors and 93 percent of the nurses in the city. On the day of the bombing, only one doctor, Terufumi Sasaki, remained on duty at the Red Cross Hospital.
GYLJ4 TIL there is a mysterious cemetery island just off the coast of Cabuya, Costa Rica. During low tide, a land bridge will surface, connecting the island to the mainland which allows people to travel there on foot and even hold funeral processions.
rNnRw TIL that in Japan, most people are born Shinto, have their weddings at a church, and have funerals at Buddhist temples.
GQDE TIL Demetri Martin wrote a full length poem that is also a palindrome.