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TIL That Animators In Japan Are So Underpaid And Overworked Fans Started A Charitable Foundation Just So Struggling Anime Artists Could Survive In Tokyo.

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BrDly TIL there is a whole area of Greece autonomously ruled by the Orthodox church and that only men are allowed to enter
rN1n1 TIL on our billions years old planet, trees have only been around for 400M years. For the first 40M bacteria, fungus, mold, yeast, and animals had NFI what to do with them. So trees just got old and fell over. 40M years of perfectly fine baseball bats and chesterfields just laying around the place.
PYAeg TIL The main set of the 1980 film Popeye, starring Robin Williams, is now one of Malta’s major tourist attractions. A small but quaint coastal village, it has Popeye themed events, shows, and many props from the movie.
kOep4 TIL September is the most common US birthing month, meaning more parents conceive during Christmas time, not Valentine's Day.
okQE TIL that there was widespread and violent persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses during WWII due to their refusal to salute the flag, with the ACLU recording nearly 1500 attacks over a 5 month period around the country.