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TIL that out of the 1,000 deaths in the Kamaishi City tsunami, only 5 were school-aged children. 3,000 children from two elementary schools were saved because one professor who survived a 2004 tsunami insisted on rigorous tsunami evacuation training.

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wLWoJ TIL about the Megalithic Temples of Malta. Built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta. They had been claimed as the oldest free-standing structures on Earth until the discovery of Göbekli Tepe.
endb TIL there’s a town in South Carolina called North. So it’s called North, South Carolina.
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R5LNl TIL the Michelin Man has a name, and it's Bibendum