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TIL: Japan has a Coffee Spa

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Rpww TIL the pre-Meiji Japanese government differentiated believers and non-believers of Catholicism by making them step on pictures of the Virgin Mary and Christ. Those found guilty were often executed by being thrown into a volcano
V5Bp TIL the Sun is the most perfect sphere ever observed in nature.
XE6k6 TIL A dog named Cactus ran an ultramarathon in the Sahara Desert just for fun, beating the majority of human runners.
GAA51 TIL that in central Italy, there is a fountain that flows red wine 24-hours a day. It is free to everyone, except for drunkards and louts .
vPl68 TIL Natalie Portman was supposed to be in the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet. But was fired due to her only being 13 while co star Leonardo DiCaprio was 21 at the time(saying he found it extremely inappropriate)