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TIL Stephen Colbert's father and brothers were killed in a plane crash because the flight crew were discussing politics among other subjects

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8eXn8 TIL despite gambling for money being illegal in Japan many parlors for the Japanese gambling game Pachinko exploit a legal loophole where players are awarded special tokens instead of cash which are then "sold" by players to outside vendors and then sold by the vendors back to the parlor.
wGx1 TIL There is a 300 year old Tibetan manuscript that has been translated as follows: “The Yeti is a variety of bear living in inhospitable mountainous areas.”
kLw5 TIL, before his death, Ed Sullivan believed he was suffering complications from his long-standing battle with ulcers. He did not know that he had been diagnosed with advanced esophageal cancer the month before, a diagnosis his family and doctors had kept secret from him.
b980E TIL That Jesse Dimmick, a kidnapper, tried to sue his hostages for escaping, claiming that "they broke an oral contract" in exchange for offering them money to keep him hidden from the authorities
mxkpv TIL in the 1870s, the city of Liège, Belgium hired 37 cats to deliver mail. It was unsuccessful.