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TIL that in Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.

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6Dgl TIL that the most lethal sport riot in history happened in Constantinople AD 532, was over chariot racing, and saw tens of thousands dead and half the city destroyed.
4kRao TIL Natalie Imbruglia’s 1997 mega-hit “Torn” is a cover
gMBYL TIL Kate Bush has only toured once, the Tour of Life, which ran for six weeks in 1979. The BBC suggested that she may have quit touring due to a fear of flying, or because of the death of a lighting engineer, Bill Duffield, who was killed in an accident during a warmup concert.
pjP4 TIL that Tito, tired of Stalin’s attempts to assassinate him, openly wrote: “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. (…) If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”
a8W50 TIL there are proposed plans to expand the US telephone system because the number of available new 3-digit area codes is expected to be used up by around 2050.