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XZe6 TIL that you aren’t supposed to walk through the gates of a Japanese shrine, the gates are reserved for the Shinto gods so you have to walk around them (unless you are in fact a Shinto god in the guise of a tourist).
grnyX TIL the USA has given out almost $4 trillion USD in foreign aid.
OwVX TIL there is a long history of US Vice Presidents disliking the job. John Adams called it “the most insignificant office… contrived,” FDR’s Vice President Garner called it “not worth a bucket of warm piss,” and Truman joking Vice Presidents were “about as useful as a cow’s fifth teat.”
XRV8 TIL that Dmitri Krioukov, a physicist from San Diego, avoided a traffic fine by publishing a paper called The Proof of Innocence, for which he was also awarded a special prize of $400.
n57r TIL of companies that are mounting laser beams on top of buildings to deliver financial trading data tiny bits faster than fiber optic. This allows high speed stock trading algorithms to capitalize on info known before anyone else.