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TIL about Hikikomori: modern day hermits/recluses in Japan whose numbers are on the rise, with an estimated million youths/middle age already afflicted.

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Q4vX TIL Google secretly runs a research facility called Google X somewhere in the Bay Area.
ADjO7 TIL about Katyn massacre, a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD ("People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs", the Soviet secret police) in April and May 1940.
W7EAA TIL of British General Charles “No-flint” Grey. Grey defeated several American armies in stealth attacks, using his favoured tactic of having his men remove the flints from their muskets and attack enemies using their bayonets alone.
aKV0 TIL the theme to the children’s cartoon series “Arthur” was written by son of Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley.
BrENW TIL that Snoopy's doghouse is always shown from the side so as to never reveal the interior, leaving what's inside to the reader's imagination. There was only one exception: on May 8, 1960, the inside of the doghouse can be seen. It's just an empty doghouse.