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TIL More than 10% of Japan’s GDP comes from its anime industry

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R7ZEl TIL About a book called “The Secret (treasure hunt)”. It contains 12 cryptic paintings associated with 12 cryptic riddles you must decipher in order to dig up a key to the loot buried around the U.S. and Canada. Only 3 have been discovered since 1982.
6BwQ TIL that the East German secret police force (the Stasi) once mailed a vibrator to a man’s wife in an attempt to drive him insane.
PYpLO TIL about solved games. Solved games are games whose outcome can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming both players play the best possible moves. Tic-tac-toe is easily solvable. Chess may never be fully solved.
AVM4 TIL: Bamboo sharks can survive on land for 12 hours, and have known to have virgin births
grk4 TIL completely pure water freezes not at 0C but at -48C (water which freezes at 0C is contaminated with bacteria and other particles)