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TIL that 98% of all Adoptions in Japan are of Male Adults, so that family businesses can remain within the family.

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MmyA TIL that in Los Angeles in 1994, after an eathquake-induced power outage, calls came into emergency centers about a “giant silvery cloud.” It was the Milky Way.
vdBr TIL Canadian F-18s have a “false canopy” painted on the underside of the plane to confuse enemy pilots during dogfights.
M7X8A TIL about Fusionism, where from 1894 to 1900 the North Carolina Republican Party and the Populist Party collaborated via electoral fusion to compete against the North Carolina Democratic Party. This coalition would play a pivotal role as being victims of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898.
X0JDX TIL in the mid-1980s there was a Nerds cereal and that the box had two separate compartments and each compartment had its own flavor. It also came with a mail-in offer for a two-sided Nerds bowl that had a "Nerd Gate" that when lifted would allow milk on one side of the bowl to flow into the other.
VMAQD TIL the streets of medieval England were often named after the activities that went on there (Baker Street, Church Hill). "Gropecunt Lane" is exactly what you think it is.