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TIL that stop signs are used all over the world except in Turkey where they are labeled "Dur"

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OoE67 TIL that during WWI influenza sickened 26% of the US Army—more than one million men—and killed almost 30,000 before they even got to France.
P1xgL TIL Randy Johnson, one of the best pitchers ever, is now a professional photographer.
P1AYe TIL about the Great Sheep Panic of 1888 where tens of thousands of sheep, in an area of 200 square miles, simultaneously broke out of their enclosure and looked like they were terror stricken
GYPaG TIL George Orwell took his pseudonym name from the River Orwell in Suffolk in UK
Brkvx TIL: Bōnenkai is a Japanese drinking party that is organized at the end of a year. It literally translates to "forget the year gathering" and is meant to forget the woes and troubles of the past year, and hopefully look to the new year