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TIL that the elderly in Japan decided to clear up the nuclear waste so that the young were not exposed to it.

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5RkR TIL Paul McCartney occasionally rides the bus as a normal guy and chats to people. “It grounds you, you know. It’s a balance thing. I’m just one of the people on the bus. I’m the famous one, but I’m behaving normally… Really, it’s important.”
xVBX7 TIL Microbes living within tree trunks and root systems generate massive amounts of methane (50-65 million tons of methane annually from wetland trees alone)
X05Ek Til A man with delusions of being the president had became leader of Estonia. He then went about banning all political parties, illegally postponing elections since the public was “Sick-minded”, while replacing the congress with the chamber of commerce. He would later die in a mental hospital.
rNRbd TIL the famed Tuskegee Airmen of the 332nd Fighter Group won the Air Force's first Top Gun-style competition but kept it secret until a historian uncovered it in 2005
YpKDP TIL Greco-Romans wrote the names of their enemies on broken pieces of pottery then used the pieces to wipe their butts.