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TIL that Korean art has a genre called “chaekgeori” that literally means books and things because their government banned books so they felt the need to paint real-life scale books and position them behind their seats.

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Zgoa TIL that 75% of Japanese homes have a hi-tech toilet and the latest models eliminate the need for TP, keep you warm, check your blood pressure, play running-water sounds to increase privacy and open and close automatically so you don’t have to touch anything.
4XNVR TIL Keith Richards wrote the guitar lick for "Satisfaction" and recorded it on a Philips cassette recorder while sleepwalking. When he woke up the next day, he had no idea he had written it until he heard the recording of about two minutes of guitar and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes"
pJ7p TIL “the annual savings on enforcement and incarceration costs from the legalization of drugs would amount to roughly $41.3 billion, with $25.7 billion being saved among the states and over $15.6 billion accrued for the federal government.”
6975m TIL in 1990 NASA turned the Galileo spacecraft towards Earth to look for signs of life
R7p4l TIL that Japan's most celebrated generals have been masters of Ikebana, the art of flower arranging, finding that it calmed their minds and helped them make clear decisions in the field of battle.