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TIL Japan and especially Tokyo was not considered a clean place until the 1970s

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v1vDR TIL that pope Stephen VI once dug up the body of a previous pope, put it on trial for bribery and rule-breaking and mocked him for being silent in front of the entire vatican. The defendant lost the case.
wLAnM TIL that Benjamin Franklin, before becoming one of the chief architects of the U.S Constitution and a Founding Father, was staunch British loyalist, even going so far as to state, "I look on the colonies as so many counties gained to Great Britain."
dDj47 TIL some workers in Japan pay agencies to tell their employers that they are resigning
WkAGd TIL in 2014 a Scottish woman went to the hospital after contracting sepsis and doctors found a five-inch long dildo that had been lodged in her vagina for 10 years!
pYORA TIL about a jigsaw puzzle with a $2 million prize that has remained unsolved for 17 years—even AI struggles with it.