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TIL Not even 20% of japanese people have passports!

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pMbZ TIL An Ohio Judge, who each year would move a drunken-driving trial from his courtroom to a local high school as a cautionary tale to students, was arrested himself on a DUI after he hit a County bus, failed to stop, then refused a sobriety test after being pulled over by police
vd08 TIL we call the animal a cow because the herdsmen were English, but the meat beef because chefs were often French and beef is similar to the old French word for a cow. The same is true for pig/pork, and sheep/mutton.
a0ON TIL The last episode of the Powerpuff Girls was banned. It was a Tommy style musical argued to have a capitalist vs. communist message.
xVAaw TIL of Dancing Mania, also known as dancing plague, St. John's Dance or St. Vitus's Dance. This was a social phenomenon that occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It involved groups of people dancing erratically, sometimes thousands at a time.
wLaLP TIL Quentin Tarantino refuses to share his wealth with his mother because she mocked his writing aspirations growing up.