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TIL Chinese students can rent fake parents to meet their teacher to avoid embarrassment

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wL4MW TIL of Fukushi Masaichi, collector of tattoos taken from the dead. He had acquired these skins by working in a charity hospital, and by offering people money "to finish their tattoos on the condition he could harvest the tattoo when they died."
wLv7P TIL Chuck Berry's hit song Roll Over Beethoven was inspired by how his sister always used the family piano to play classical music when Berry wanted to play popular music. The title refers to how classical composers would roll in their graves upon hearing rock and roll.
NVv6 TIL The University of Michigan was founded 20 years before Michigan officially became a state.
Br9ne TIL that in 2014 the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting company created and aired a shot-for-shot clone of the American sitcom "Modern Family"
BgKWK TIL: Colombia (country) announced in Dec that it will attempt to retrieve treasures from the 1708 shipwreck of San José which contains billions of dollars worth of gold, silver, emeralds, etc despite the ongoing legal battle between the US, Spain, and Columbia over who owns it.