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

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4X6b6 TIL that Breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day. That belief was started by Kellogg's Cereal company to sell their product.
MeJPV TIL In the early 70s the US Fish and Wildlife Service established the National Eagle Repository as a hub to receive and then redistribute eagle parts found dead around the US to Native Americans and Alaskan Natives for religious purposes.
QJ9AM TIL Pluto is often referred to as a "double planet" Its primary moon Charon (funnily enough pronounced Kar-en), is almost half the size of Pluto...yet exerts such an impact on Pluto that they actually orbit each other.
mGOp TIL “Huh” is the universal word, say linguists. “Huh” is not innate (other primates don’t say it), but the circumstances of its use (needing to quickly and briefly prompt another speaker to repeat herself) are universal, so languages that share no commonalities still converged on this word.
yVkRl TIL that a man lived with a penis on his arm for 6 years