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TIL that the Lockheed Scandal caused Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to be arrested

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0dyrN TIL that in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sad movies with you and wipe your tears.
JY8xl TIL Johnson & Johnson knew there was Asbestos in Baby Powder for decades
G4rJ TIL That iodine deficiency currently affects around 2 billion people and is the leading preventable cause of intellectual disability.
oky7 TIL Stephen Hawking’s father was a medical researcher and encouraged his son to get into medicine. But Stephen turned down biology as it didn’t seem to explain things at a fundamental level. He got into mathematics which seemed highly impractical to his father.
AvBo TIL the inventor of the bitcoin system is of unknown identity. He has never revealed his real name and no one has ever seen him. As of 2017, he owns $2 billion USD in bitcoin.