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TIL New Zealand has an official Wizard appointed by the prime minister.

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D1oEj TIL in the 50-plus year history of the Japanese bullet train system, carrying over 5.3 billion passengers, there has been not a single passenger fatality or injury due to train accidents.
rnee TIL that there is evidence that the British Admiralty deliberately send the luxury liner Lusitania into waters patrolled by German U-boats in the hope that the ship would be attacked and sunk with Americans on board, thus drawing the US into WWI. 1,198 people drowned, inc. many women and children
R76w8 TIL about Yatch Support Vessels. Basically a storage yatch someone buys to follow their main yatch. It can house all their toys (Jet skis, helicopters, etc.,) and staff so their MAIN yatch isn't cluttered.
9KK7 TIL Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was one of the first people to propose creating a Panama Canal
d8XWr TIL along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.