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TIL Not even 20% of japanese people have passports!

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6EA6Z TIL that the inspiration for creating SimCity came when its creator Will Wright was developing a helicopter shoot'em up and found that he enjoyed messing around with the tool that creates the landscape maps more than the game itself!
69edm TIL smoking alcohol is a growing trend, and very dangerous.
7rmAb TIL the first ever film rated "PG-13" by the MPAA was Red Dawn in 1984, Before that it went straight from PG to Rated R
ZpynG TIL that the Hundred Years’ War was actually a 116 year war fought over three distinct periods.
78NwZ TIL about Christa Pike, the youngest woman to be sentenced to death in USA. She was sentenced for killing a fellow student, Colleen Slemmer, in 1995. Pike was only 18 at the time of the murder and was motivated by jealousy.