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TIL that in Japan students don’t take exams until 4th grade.

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N7KrJ TIL Junko Furuta was a 17-year-old girl when she was kidnapped, she went through hell for 44 days before death finally relieved her pain on January 4, 1989. Junko was tortured to an extent that in the end, she was unable to stand or even speak. Her killers are now living as free men
xVGND TIL names for generic drugs has a prefix and suffix. The suffix tell you how the drug works. The prefix can me made up but has to follow a strict rule including not using the letters Y, H, K, J, and W because certain languages that use the Roman alphabet don't have these letters.
kOa0E TIL The difference between different types of wetlands. A bog is acidic while a fen is alkaline. A swamp has vegetation that consists of trees or other woody plants whereas a marsh has other forms of vegetation.
MeKAa TIL that a Chef's hat traditionally has 100 folds. This is said to represent the number of different ways a chef knows how to cook eggs
R5ml TIL that there is a boat which sails around to countries with restrictive abortion laws, and offers abortions in international waters.