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TIL that jazz legend Charles Mingus once published a manual to toilet-train cats

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XE7QE TIL: Finland has ten trees for every person in the world
woQZo TIL in early 2005, the Blu-ray Disc Association and DVD Forum attempted to negotiate a compromise to avoid a costly format war between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. The negotiations proceeded slowly and ultimately stalled. In August, they confirmed the negotiations to unify their standards had failed.
xy9w TIL that in “Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah”, the big white building in Shinjuku that takes a beating from Mecha-King Ghidorah and Godzilla during the final battle is the main center for tax in Japan, during the cinema showing the audience cheered when it was destroyed.
YZPx TIL that during the Kosovo War (1998-99) as many as 300 people were abducted and killed for an international organ harvesting and trafficking network.
a8xjN TIL that in his will, George Bernard Shaw wished for a portion of his assets to be used to generate a phonetic English alphabet of 40 letters