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TIL that Japan’s Yakuza provided relief for the 2011 Tōhoku tsunami and 1995 Kobe earthquake faster than their own government

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dD76Q Today I learned that Lucille Ball sent flowers to Carol Burnett on the latter's birthday every year. The last year Burnett received flowers from Ball was 1989. In that year, Burnett's birthday was also the day of Ball's death.
VRY8 TIL that only Somalia, South Sudan, and the US have not signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
4MBJ TIL The Finnish military once repulsed a massive invasion by the Soviet Union, with a million men and thousands of tanks. The Finnish had just a few dozen tanks and only 114 airplanes, but destroyed more than 3,500 of the Russian tanks, and caused 323,000 total casualties to the Russian force.
KOB49 TIL that the Walther PPK, the firearm famously used by James Bond, was the same used by Adolf Hitler to commit suicide
v4RB TIL after a student was suspended for wearing one of their tees, the band Korn gave away hundreds of their shirts to a Michigan high school. Police actually helped hand out the tees.