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TIL: BBC interviewed a man who married a fictional girl. In 2019, 12% of people in Japan reported falling in love with anime/game characters. According to Sociologist Masahiro Yamada, the rise in pseudo relationships is due to hard work life and a dwindling pool of well paid men.

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ne5Eb TIL of the 1988 Armenian Earthquake. The initial more powerful quake lasted approximately 20 seconds and anywhere from 25-50 thousand people were killed with over half a million structures destroyed.
mxQ8Y TIL 1000 Italians played a Foo Fighters song to convince them to do a concert in their small town
mxEMR TIL a long-lost Rembrandt painting was found in a basement in New Jersey. It was initially valued by a local auction house at $800, who were unaware of its true value. But numerous art buffs recognised its true value, resulting in it selling for $870,000 ($1.1 million with the sale premium).
54WB [TIL] Despite red and black being the most common colours, there are OVER 4,000 different types of Ladybirds. (ladybugs for the Americans out there) They use their feet to smell things and their blood is orange too.
Br4pD TIL that both the penny and the nickel cost more to make than they're worth, and that up to 1982 the metal in a penny was worth more than the penny itself.