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TIL Kasane Teto, a virtual singer software created on the Japanese textboard 2channel for April Fools' Day, 2008. Initially conceived as a hoax by users who planned to make a fake Vocaloid character, it was eventually developed into a real product. She was introduced as a "diva born from a hoax".

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Z8oLa TIL that in Japan, citizens between 40-74 have their waist measured as part of the annual health check-up. If their waist is more than 33.5" for men or 35.4" for women, they are sent to nutrition and exercise professionals, with optional counselling. Even sumo wrestlers are measured after retirement
9mYG TIL of David Kootook, a 14 year old Inuit boy who survived for 23 days in -40 degree weather after a plane crash in the Arctic. He refused offers by the pilot to eat the body of a fellow passenger and died of starvation 23 days later. Upon rescue, the pilot said “Welcome to the camp of a cannibal.”
a8rAb TIL in the 1990s Donnie Yen (known for his roles in Ip Man, Star Wars and John Wick) and his girlfriend Joey Meng were leaving a club in Hong Kong when they were attacked by a group of men who had been bothering them earlier that night. Donnie hospitalized all 8 of them.
D7ED TIL Aribert Heim, aka Dr. Death because of the horrific experiments he performed on Jews during the Holocaust, evaded capture be escaping Germany and converting to Islam, living in Egypt under the name Tarek Hussein Farid until his death in 1992.
W7pKN TIL that Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language, had a brother named Paul.