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TIL the defamation laws are such in Japan that you can sue someone for publicly damaging your character - even if what they said is true.

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LRB0 TIL even though the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens is considered a medium sized eruption relative to other volcanic eruptions, the landslide that happened less than a second before was the largest landslide in recorded history
b6yQa TIL that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns an enormous collection of fossils as a kind of byproduct of the Corps’s actual, more logistical purpose: flood control.
9Wg7 TIL Utah, despite being known as one of the most religious and wholesome states, ranks number one out of all fifty states in online porn subscriptions.
BgYd TIL that the Seinfeld episode where Jerry refuses to race by cryptically telling people “I choose not to run” is a play on Calvin Coolidge, who said nearly the same thing when he decided not to run for re-election in 1928.
pYZoZ TIL about Amy Fisher, known in the media as the “Long Island Lolita”, who was the subject of three network movies broadcast in a 2 week span.