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TIL, in a small Japanese seaside town, there is an underwater mailbox. The town's former postmaster built it together with the local diver community to put their small town of Susami on the map and boost tourism. And, it worked. It's in the Guinness book of world records.

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e0Vx6 TIL the University of Georgia was caught having a 300-level Coaching Principles and Strategies of Basketball class, attended mainly by its basketball team, where the final exam had questions like "How many points does a 3-point field goal account for in a basketball game?"
KO5YB TIL about "Mitochondrial Eve", the most recent woman from whom all living humans descend in an unbroken line through their mothers. Estimates for her age are highly uncertain, with a range of times from 180,000 to 580,000 years ago.
dlo8 TIL 48% of men rated emotional dissatisfaction as the primary reason they cheated on their spouse. While only 12% of cheating men said their mistress was more physically attractive than their wife.
Ke1w TIL A cat named Cleo tracked down and found her owner who had been moved into a nursing home. Nancy Cowen forced to say goodbye to her loveable cat whom she had adopted as a stray eight years earlier but weeks later Cleo, to the amazement of everyone, managed to find her.
4krGJ TIL: There is currently an Anti Superstition and Black Magic Act in India passed in 2013. It was mainly passed to reduce scam artists promising cures. However, it also banned carrying out inhumane acts to gain supernatural powers and claiming to be a reincarnated lover to sleep with women.