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TIL that the age of consent in Japan is only 13 years old.

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yVAX8 TIL Mozart wrote a concerto for flute and harp on commission for a French flutist and his harpist daughter. Mozart was never paid for the pierce and therefore he never wrote for the harp again. In Mozart's 40 concertos, he only wrote once for the combined flute and harp
X0LEr TIL that shrapnel is named after Lieutenant-General Henry Shrapnel who was a British artillery officer who invented the shrapnel artillery shell.
jNnRv TIL giant pandas are under thread of mass starvation due to bamboo mass blossoming this year. After bamboo, panda's main food source, blooms it dies and it takes 10 years for new bamboo to mature. When this happened in 1975 giant panda population dropped from 2000 to 1000 over the next 10 years.
LkB1V TIL that only 10% of wine 'experts' can consistently rate the wine from the same bottle in the same way, and they aren't consistent the next year. After analysing results across wine competitions in california, medals were found to be distributed at random.
XEjLQ TIL the man dancing with no shirt on and a straw hat in the music video for "Pink Houses" is Harvey Goodin, who at the time was the mayor of Austin, Indiana.