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TIL that in South Korea, only visually impaired people can be licensed masseurs, dating back over 100 years to a Japanese colonial law that was set up to guarantee the blind a livelihood.

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R5oyQ TIL about the British submarine E31 which in WW1 fired the final shots that brought down German Zeppelin LZ 32
Eg4m0 TIL that the words “right or wrong,” are not definite, absolute or finite. They can have multiple meanings based on the person using the words as they are disambiguous.
WNXA TIL that the original Super Mario Brothers game actually had 256 “hidden” glitch-filled levels that could be accessed by swapping out your cartridge with “Tennis” without turning the console off
p8A6Q TIL after a student failed the math portion of Minnesota’s Basic Standards Tests her father demanded to see the exam, threatening to sue for it. A series of scoring errors were found meaning math scores for 45,739 Minnesota students were wrong and 7,935 students who were told they failed had passed.
4pK5 TIL Before shooting Dogma, Kevin Smith warned Jason Mewes that he needed to be on point due to the involvement of actors such as Alan Rickman. Mewes then memorized the dialogue for every character in the entire screenplay. His motivation? Because he “didn’t want to piss off that Rickman dude.”