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TIL Highlighters are typically yellow because it is the color that doesn’t leave a shadow on the page when photocopied

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Lmep TIL at the Sanjusangendo Temple in Japan there is an annual competition to fire as many arrows through the temple as possible in 24 hours. The arrows can’t hit the floor, walls or the ceiling. The current record is 8133 successful shots out of 13,053 shots, set in 1686.
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