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TIL Japan has a ratio of one vending machine for every 30 people.

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4k0m6 TIL Tibetan monks practice chöd, a ritual involving meditation in haunted places and visualizing offering their own bodies to spirits as a feast. They spend nights in graveyards, aiming to dissolve ego, confront mortality, and transcend fear, achieving compassion and detachment by embracing death.
BgvAy TIL that in 1980, Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore warned Australia it was on track to become the ‘poor white trash of Asia’ if it didn’t open up its economy. Australia did open its economy, thrived, and has very close and friendly relations with Singapore.
5VGnQ TIL Vraam unironically watches family guy
9WKB TIL the U.S. does not use bills over $100 because President Nixon wanted to make it harder to move large amounts of money across borders for drug trading.
R5NMw TIL Woodpeckers ram their bills at 25 times per second with 1200g’s acceleration.This research refutes the theory that their skulls act like helmets, absorbing the shock of impact. Instead, they minimize it to strike harder