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TIL in Japan, there are more pets than children.

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epA9J TIL: Indians used to burn widows till the British colonized them.
KOQ79 TIL when a persistent Washington DC bookstore clerk exposed Stephen King as the true author of books written under the name Richard Bachman, King's publishers sent out a press release announcing Bachman's death from "cancer of the pseudonym."
gMpg8 TIL that despite being one of the 3 most important gods in Hinduism, Brahma the creator is rarely worshipped. There are few temples dedicated to him in India.
koY7 TIL Warner Bros donates royalties made from their Tasmanian Devil character to help fight a facial tumour that is decimating the native species
QNL4a TIL San Francisco experienced a major earthquake in 1906 that caused the San Andreas Fault to slip. It was followed by massive fire that led to 4 square miles being leveled, 3,000 deaths and 250,000 left homeless. The sound was described as a noise "like the roar of 10,000 lions"