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TIL in Japan, you can hire a handsome man to watch sappy movies with you and wipe away your tears. The company, "Ikemeso Danshi," (Handsome Weeping Boys) was born out of the idea that crying can be therapeutic and showing off your vulnerability can make you work better as a team.

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W7yO4 TIL Mana Ashida, the young girl playing the younger version of Mako Mori in Pacific Rim (2013) could not pronounce director Guillermo Del Toro’s name, so he gave her special permission to call him Totoro-san
wL94Y TIL that US president Jimmy Carter issued a state of emergency in 1979 that is still active today, over 40 years later. This state of emergency gives "extra ordinary powers" to the president to "seize property, call up the National Guard and hire and fire military officers at will."
ANA47 TIL a Canadian 12 year old graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biomedical science. She also plays basketball, the violin and is a competitive figure skater.
W7VQN TIL That In 2013, a Florida man, Jeff Bush, was sleeping in his bedroom when a large sinkhole opened up directly underneath his bed, swallowing him and his entire bedroom. His brother heard him scream, but was unable to see or reach him in time. Bush’s body was never recovered.
BQMW TIL that the Canadian military tortured a young man to death in Somalia in 1993. In response to this incident the Canadian government and military disbanded the entire branch of their military (Airborne command) that had committed the act.