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d8ay8 TIL In Japan there is a village, Inakadate where Locals turned their Rice Paddy fields into artworks using different colored rice plants as a way to boost tourism and contribute to the village’s rich culture. The drawings are inspired from local geography and Japanese folklore. It's Beautiful.
lDOr TIL during the Makahiki festival in Hawaii, the chief would go off shore in a canoe. When he came back warriors threw spears at him and he had to deflect them to prove his worthiness to rule.
lRA7 TIL Tibetan mythology has zombies (ro-lang) and that Western zombie-narratives depict them very similarily
VMpEZ TIL peeling Scotch Tape in a vacuum releases enough X-rays to produce an image of finger bones on X-ray film
Rvg7 TIL in 1983 a Russian radar detected the launch of Minuteman missiles by the U.S. The radar operator correctly identified the detection as a false alarm and is credited with averting a likely counterstrike by the Russians which would have started a nuclear war.