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TIL that in Japan there’s a communal event called ‘rui-katsu’ (tear-seeking). It’s when people get together to watch sad clips and then cry to relieve stress.

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ADdYg TIL that the crew that's gonna land on Mars for colonisation will depend on artificial lighting for the production of food and they might even have to include algae and insects in their diet. They'll be taking stored food from earth that'd serve as emergency ration.
m6Ly TIL California’s largest body of water, the Salton Sea, was created by an engineering mistake. Irrigation canals were dug from the Colorado river to the Salton sink. When the river flooded a dyke was breached and the entire Colorado river poured into the sink making the sea.
EgKxP TIL a 22-year-old high school JV girls basketball coach in Virginia lost her job after she played in a game by posing as a 13-year-old on the team who was out of town. Upon being reported, the team forfeited the game and the players (both JV & varsity) voted to cancel the rest of their seasons.
Me4nW TIL John Wilkes Booth's father was named Junius Brutus Booth, after the main conspirator in the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar
0dZyN TIL in 1997 construction crews discovered the grave of a Tim Cratchit, son of Bob Cratchit, who had a metal frame to support his leg.