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TIL about the "Osaka Bang", where the citizens of Osaka in Japan will react and sometimes fall over if you pretend to shoot them

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0d05y TIL of the 'Azolla event', a situation in which a species of floating fern covered the Arctic Ocean ~49 million years ago; scientists suspect the fern grew so aggressively that it removed enough CO2 from the atmosphere to initiate a global ice age
ne4Eo TIL There are classes in Japan that teach kids how to use the Soroban abacus to develop faster skills in arithmetic. After a few years they no longer even need to use a real abacus to perform fast mental calculations since they can already visualize an image of it
P1N0V TIL after realizing their tail-warning radars had the opposite effect - attracted luftwaffe to their night raids rather than increase survivability - The RAF decided to abuse this fact to intentionally lure german aircraft into deadly traps using their mosquito night fighters
VBmdD TIL that in 2012, a computer error caused all the fireworks in the San Diego's Fourth of July Celebration to go off at once, instead of over 18 minutes
0wJJv TIL in 1976 a woman sued Disney for $150,000 in damages, claiming one of the Three Little Pigs fondled her at "It's a Small World" and that she gained 50 lbs (23 kg) as a result. The case was dropped when the costume was found to have "inoperable stub arms," making said fondling impossible.