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TIL Not even 20% of japanese people have passports!

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6gNZ TIL 45% of US homes are now equipped with DVRs (and the TV industry is, naturally, having to change how it operates)
gLL7 TIL Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev was in space when the Soviet Union was dissolved. He went up a Soviet citizen and returned a Russian citizen.
novW TIL a 1984 contestant on the game show “Press My Luck” used his stop-motion VCR to memorize the patterns used on the game board. He won $110,237 in cash and prizes, at the time the largest one-day total ever won on a game show.
E10no TIL that on December 10th, 1963, 15 days after it was lit, the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame in Washington, D.C. was accidentally extinguished by a group of Catholic schoolchildren who were sprinkling it with holy water.
a8W9N TIL Most newborns cry for 45 minutes to two hours every day during the first six months of life because crying is the only way they communicate