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TIL “Fiddler on the Roof” is a smash hit in Japan, with hundreds of revivals since 1967. A Japanese producer wondered whether American audiences understood the play, “because it’s so Japanese.”

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R7v7j TIL the Moscow plague riot of 1771 was caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague. The city's economy was mostly paralysed because industries had been closed down. All of this was followed by acute food shortages, leading to huge crowds rioting, and demands for the elimination of quarantines.
QVgE TIL of the frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon),the phenomenon in which people who just learn or notice something start seeing it everywhere.
R4x9 TIL that escaped slaves in Brazil founded a settlement with a population of at least 11,000 that survived and fought off the Brazilian government for almost 100 years.
rrXe TIL in 1988, the administrative law judge for the DEA stated: “Nearly all medicines have toxic, potentially lethal effects. But marijuana is not such a substance. There is no record in the extensive medical literature describing a proven, documented cannabis-induced fatality”.
oBbPE TIL that Pablo Picasso carried a revolver loaded with blanks, which he would fire at whoever asked him what his work “meant.”