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TIL there’s a Japanese schoolyard song about Tanuki’s testicles swinging freely, even without wind. Also learned the legendary Tanuki has 8 special traits; one of them being an oversized scrotum that symbolizes financial luck. Bit disappointed this wasn’t incorporated in Tanooki Mario.

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a8L8y TIL of Israel Epstein, a Jewish Polish-Chinese journalist who gained intimate access to Mao Zedong’s inner circle and was one of the few foreigners to gain Chinese citizenship.
rRGoe TIL Sweden and Spain got into an argument in 1434 about who was more Gothic and deserving of higher honors. The Swedes claimed direct descent from the Goths. The Spanish claimed that only lazy Goths had stayed in Scandinavia while the heroic ones conquered Spain.
e0YW4 TIL of the Kengir Gulag Uprising, where inmates assumed control over a camp. Due to the large body of educated inmates the 40 days of freedom saw the creation of plays, an ex-noble organizing a café, priests organizing marriages, engineers creating improvised radios and a hydroelectric powerstation
j9lM TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.
X0waX TIL Jonny Kim is a Korean American, Astronaut, Doctor, Navy Seal