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TIL it is against the law to be obese in Japan
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TIL that looting of DJ equipment during a 1977 power outage in New York played a large role in the success of Hip Hop
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The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.
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TIL of the amazing and fearless POW dog Judy, who uplifted and protected British prisoners captured by the Japanese during WW2. She skirted death multiple times and survived the war. Her “master” built her a granite memorial inscribed with her life story when she died of old age
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TIL the Eric Clapton song "Tears in Heaven" was written for Clapton's four-year-old son who fell from a window of a 53rd-floor New York apartment in 1991. He doesn't sing it live because he doesn't feel the loss anymore and he doesn't want those feelings to come back.
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TIL 600 years ago the Japanese placed ancient stone markers along the coastline to warn future generations not build there due to the risk of tsunamis