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TIL Yakuza bosses in Japan aren’t allowed to buy smartphones and are forced to use old 3G flip phones

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Ooyog TIL, spiked dog collars were once used to protect shepherding dogs from wolf attacks. Wolves would first go for the throat.
VgZ TIL that Pittsburgh is the only city in the USA where all of the sports teams share the same colors (Black and Gold)
JYxQ8 TIL in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), when first Darth Vader force chokes the imperial officer, he interrupts him saying the words "hidden fortress". This is a nod to The Hidden Fortress (1958), an Akira Kurosawa film set in Feudal Japan which Star Wars is based on. (timestamped link in comments)
4XWPw TIL: About the Grays Harbor Lighthouse, in Westport, WA. At 107 feet tall, it's not the tallest but its light is powered by a 35 watt bulb that can be seen for 19 miles or 31km.
VBBXD TIL that Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - Queen Victoria’s goddaughter was also a suffragette and therefore marked as a danger to the state.