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TIL There are more flamenco schools in Japan than Spain

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bgp4 TIL Dinka tribesmen of Sudan sometimes rupture their stomachs by overeating in preparation for ‘fat-man’ contests. Deaths this way are considered an honorble way to die.
NjN TIL there is a town in Wyoming, USA, with a population of just 1 person (who worked as both a janitor and a mayor) that sold for $900,000 to a Vietnamese buyer after an 11 minute online auction.
4kpw6 TIL that the USA started a project 1938 that hired 450 unemployed clerks to write 28 volumes of higher mathematical functions.
ZNYR TIL that Allied forces during WWII battled for two straight days on the island of Kiska and suffered over 300 casualties only to find out that the Japanese had abandoned the island two weeks prior to the invasion.
ewOJ TIL that a Singaporean pilot, Tsu Whey Ming, committed murder/suicide by intentionally crashing the 737-300 he was piloting, killing all 104 people on board, and that the Indonesian authorities covered up the report prompting the U.S. NTSB, in an unprecedented move, to publicly contradict them