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TIL to get revenge on fellow Boy Scouts who bullied him, a Tokyo resident mailed more than 500 boxes of soggy, smelly garbage including old underwear and rotten tea leaves to his tormentors, writing a random destination as the address with the bully’s return address in order to escape detection.

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VMakB TIL that a 2019 poll found that only around three in ten Americans enjoy changing the clocks for daylight savings time, while seven in ten would prefer to stick to a standardized time all year.
VM4Q8 TIL that even though Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of electronic television, was disappointed by it for most of his life, he changed his mind the day he saw Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon thanks to his invention, telling his wife "this has made it all worthwhile".
jNjPR TIL the Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world
4pvN TIL an electronics store chain that advertised stereos for “299 bananas” honored the television offer and lost over $10,000 when customers started showing up with loads of the fruit.
w74W TIL there was a character as popular as a meme in World War II named Kilroy. The phrase “Kilroy was here” was graffitied by soldiers across the world during the war, and nobody knows who the real original Kilroy was.