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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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yVoBX TIL Fire Ants are an invasive species to the US. The FDA estimates $5 Billion is spent annually on medical treatment, damage, and control in Red Imported Fire Ant infested areas.
MeeV7 TIL that Disney attempted to trademark "Día de los Muertos" in 2013.
D1ZAV TIL of Fatal insomnia disease. A genetic mutation that 40 families are known to carry worldwide and can be random. When it starts you die within months to 1 year depending when you stop sleeping altogether. Life expectancy is 7 months to 6 years.
PRmO TIL in the 1980s that a powerful ring of MPs and ministers were sexually abusing teenage boys in sex parties in Elm Guest House in London. Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens gave a dossier of names of paeodphiles associated with Parliament. It was “lost” by the home secretary, Leon Brittan.
9nvG TIL the largest plane to ever successfully land and take off from an aircraft carrier was a C-130 named “Look Ma, No Hook” to brag about how it needed neither an arresting hook nor a catapult assist.