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TIL gelatinous blobs rained from the sky over Oakville, Washington in 1994, reportedly causing illness in people and killing animals.

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4rb5 TIL: Medal of Honor recipients receive a special pension of $1,259 per month.
wgJM TIL there’s a festival in Japan called ‘Kanamara Matsuri’ or 'festival of the steel phallus’. Legend has it a woman with a demonic vagina destroyed all this towns penis’s until a blacksmith made a steel penis that destroyed the vaginas teeth. Now once a year they celebrate everything penis like.
nDB7 TIL that Joseph Medicine Crow, a Native American of the Crow tribe, served in World War II and completed all the requirements to become a war chief while at war, making him the last Crow member to do so.
p89Oe TIL that until 2002, six-day school weeks were the norm in Japan.
e0kDb TIL of Pierre Brassau, an artist of the “avant-garde modern art” style. He was a chimpanzee, promoted by a Swedish journalist, to see if critics could distinguish between the style and the work of a chimpanzee. Most critics praised the work.