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TIL that while Osaka is the second largest city in Japan by daytime population, at nighttime it becomes the third largest.

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4kvLw TIL: for 70 years the towns of Liberal, Kansas and Olney, England have simultaneous “pancake races,” on the day before Lent
VMRx0 TIL in 2013 a local tv station anchor read the names of 4 pilots involved in a crash landing for Asiana Flight 214 into SFO from a telepromptor as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow, without realizing the names were obvious trolling. Four members of the station lost their jobs.
kORZe TIL in 1991 a youth group in Denmark wrote to Gorbachev of Russia to ask for a free submarine. He said yes, and 3 years later they received a massive 76 meter (250 ft) submarine.
ADw7a TIL that peanuts are a fruit, and the only fruit that grows underground (root fruit!)
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