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TIL Japans current emperor until 2019 was the son of Hirohito

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KRnJ TIL It is illegal to use native bird species for commercial purposes, and that is why in Hollywood movies birds are often “wrong” species.
PY0Eg TIL modern atomic clocks are so accurate that if Yellowstone were to threaten eruption, we would be capable of detecting it in advance because of the time distortion.
yQlep TIL that 80 years ago in this day Georg Esler tried to kill Hitler with a time bomb. For climate reasons Hitler left the building early than expected and the bomb exploded only 13 minutes after his departure. Everything could have been different.
kOYoE TIL late last year archeologists in Israel discovered a cave that was used by humans some 400,000 years ago. They think it was used as a 'school' where people were taught how to make primitive tools
e0Nv6 Til before Nihon came into official use, Japan was known in China as Wa (倭) meaning "short" or "submissive". Japanese envoys found it offensive and requested a name change