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TIL that George Washington once said that “Overgrown military establishments” under any form of government are “Inauspicious to liberty” and “are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty”

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N7Ml8 TIL There’s a theme park which offers children the experience of adulthood called KidZania. Instead of going on rides, kids can work in a variety of jobs, like fireman or pilot planes, and use their “salary” in the gift shop or rent electric versions of luxury cars.
BYRD TIL: There’s an anime and manga in Japan called Saint Young Men, which is about Jesus and Buddha living as roommates in Tokyo while taking a vacation on Earth and attempting to understand Japanese society.
AN8rg TIL that the human body constantly emits a faint, visible light, a phenomenon known as biophoton emission or ultraweak photon emission (UPE), which is roughly 1,000 times less intense than what the human eye can perceive.
EeLP TIL PBS painter Bob Ross become a star in Japan after a dubbed version of his show started airing twice a day there. When he visited Japan he was mobbed with massive fans.
R7v8w TIL that the US bombed the South indiscriminately with pesticides to try to eradicate fire ants but instead killed native insects and birds that otherwise would have kept them in control