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TIL In Japan sumo wrestlers are not allowed to drive cars.

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NXeO6 TIL the cities of Chicago and Washington D.C. have curfews prohibiting anyone under 18 years to be outside after 10-12 PM.
yVLjX TIL that Operation Denver was an active measure disinformation campaign run by the KGB in the 1980s to plant the idea that the United States had invented HIV/AIDS as part of a biological weapons research project at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
8KLa TIL the samurai cloak, the Horo is a shield against incoming arrows
0nGA TIL that Hebrew’s return to regular usage is unique in that there are no other examples of a “dead” language subsequently acquiring several million native speakers, and no other examples of a sacred language becoming a national language with millions of “first language” speakers.
ADMnw TIL Scientists have claimed that The Biblical plagues that devastated Ancient Egypt in the Old Testament could all be explained. Toxic algae stained the Nile blood red, which forced frogs to leave the water, leading to insects and a volcanic eruption trigged more plagues