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Til 60% of all vocabulary in the modern Japanese dictionary are chinese loanwords

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69A7w TIL There were Allied POWs in Nagasaki & Hiroshima during the bombings
enX5 TIL The cat with the Guinness Record for Loudest Purr was measured at 92dB or louder than a lawn mower
newPB TIL of Raphael Gray, a hacker who posted stolen data of over 6.5k credit cards, claiming that the law enforcement was too incompetent to stop him. Gray's arrogance annoyed ex-hacker Chris Davis so much that he found Gray's information and informed the FBI about the crime, leading to Gray's arrest.
v1bnD TIL the common expression "OK" didn't exist prior to 1839 and was coined as a joke. In the writing of the time it was popular to make fun abbreviations similar to our OMG or even TIL, and "OK" was one of them.
v1bbj Today I learned that during the The Bubonic Plague,Jews were accused of poisoning water wells and as a result were burned alive at the stake by Christians.