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TIL that the Kantō region in Japan is real.

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p6lG TIL that in 1944, a 14-year-old boy was executed in the U.S. after a 2-hour trial with no physical evidence.
4GM5 TIL termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
xVpE1 TIL 90% of the profits of the O.J. Simpson book 'If I did it" went to Fred Goldman, Ron Goldman's father. Goldman had sued Simpson in a wrongful death civil suit and was awarded $33.5 million, which had gone unpaid. In 2007, a judge awarded the rights to the book to the Goldman family as payment.
69Y6Q TIL Requiem for a Dream was given a NC-17 rating cause of a sex scene involving Jennifer Connelly's character. When Darren Aronofsky refused to change it cause it'd undercut his goal of de-glorifying drug use by showing the worst places it can take a person, his distributor just released it unrated.
DbJp TIL Christopher Wolfram (one of the people responsible for Wolfram Alpha) has helped creating the heptapod language we saw on the movie “The arrival”