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TIL a white guy in Oakland put a concrete Buddha in a median to stop trash dumping, and it turned into a huge Vietnamese shrine - stopping the dumping but filling his neighborhood with tourists.

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b97oa TIL the imperial family of Japan descends from an unbroken lineage of nearly 2,000 years. No other royal family in history has held its position for so long. The first Japanese emperor, Jimmu Tennō, ruled when Jesus was around.
QKrk We get it. OJ was considered for the part of the Terminator and planes have crashed (or been shot down) over the years.
KO9R6 TIL that Ireland’s population still hasn’t recovered from the Great Famine. There are 3.6 million less people living there today than there were before the famine in 1841.
ypwl TIL that the Disney park, EPCOT, is an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”
V0QB TIL In 1958, The Lumbee Indians of NC learned of a KKK rally being held in the woods nearby. They attacked the KKK rally and broke it up. The Klan was never active in the area again.