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TIL that Kurioshi, Japan, has purpose-built tsunami evacuation towers

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j6GOv TIL of a second-century Roman senator with thirty-eight names.
DQY4g TIL invention of the modern American football helmet is credited to US Naval Academy football player (and later Admiral) Joseph M. Reeves, who had a shoemaker create one for him after a Navy doctor told him another kick to his head could result in instant insanity or death.
GAVQ5 TIL teflon is the only substance geckos cannot stick to.
8GZZ TIL of an Internet Mystery involving a Cicada which has never been solved.
8eEGX [TIL] Janet Cooke returned her Pulitzer prize after world came to know that the news article she wrote for The Washington Post was fictional.