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TIL the Tokyo Olympics will be held in 2020, corresponding with the events in the 1988 anime film Akira, which took place in 2019 leading up to the fictional 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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Vr0k TIL The Navy contacted the Village People to use “In the Navy” in an advertising campaign for television and radio. They gave the rights to the song for free on the condition that the Navy help them shoot the music video. The Navy provided them with a warship, several aircraft, and plenty of seamen
VJ5G TIL that people are most scared about death in their 20s, and become more accepting of death as they get older.
oBn5r TIL that the dome of the Neutrino detector under the mount Gran Sasso (Italy), has been done with bricks of lead 2000 years old found in a anciet Roman ship
X0D7k TIL that after Zaire's 9-0 defeat to Yugoslavia in the 1974 World Cup, Zaire's military dictator, President Mobutu threatened the team that if they lost 4-0 to Brazil, in their next match, they wouldn't be allowed to return home.