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TIL When Bono was 14, his mother died at her father’s funeral

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d8o78 TIL that one of the most treasured possessions of late Japanese Emperor Hirohito wasn’t made of precious metals, or even from Japan. It was a Mickey Mouse quartz watch. Given to him while visiting the US in 1975, where he insisted on visiting Disney Land. When he died in 1989 he was buried with it.
eWDb TIL when Michael Moore’s biggest critic (author of Moorewatch.com) had trouble paying his wife’s medical bills, anonymous person donated $12,000 for the cause. As it turned out later, it was Michael Moore.
P1eL TIL there was a man who was blind at 10 months old, but underwent a surgery to give him vision at age 52. However, being able to see terrified and confused him so much that he committed suicide 2 years after the surgery.
6EaEW TIL Tremont Street subway in Boston is the oldest underground rail in North America. Third oldest in the world after London and Budapest.
5VKkD TIL that tetanus is the only vaccine-preventable disease that is caused by an infection but is not contagious.