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TIL that a town in Japan painted a broken phone booth white so that people in grief can send messages to lost loved ones.

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gMvYX TIL the U.S. Air Force pays for those military fly over during sporting events to inspire a future generation. The money comes out of their training budget. In 2011 the Air Force did a fly over at the Super Bowl even though the roof was closed.
mjZE TIL There is a fire in a Kyoto temple that has been perpetually burning for over 1200 years
NVB8 TIL: A German citizen was arrested by the CIA, taken in secret to Afghanistan, tortured, sodomized, and held captive for 5 months. His lawsuit against the U.S./CIA was dismissed to “preserve state secrets”.
QNLaM TIL it is possible for deaf individuals to 'hear' music using their hands and a balloon. It is possible for the brain to 'rewire' the auditory cortex to accept input from the mechanoreceptors in the fingertips instead of the eardrums.
b9w0N TIL: Americans never 'lost' their British accents. It was the Brits that adopted 'posh' in the early 1800s. American port cities emulated it for a while.