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TIL that Emperor Akihito of Japan authored a scientific study of racoon poo

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LrgV TIL Mexico is officially called the United Mexican States.
mGrR TIL the amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime.
VMpek TIL: The Wizard of Oz received one negative review, from the New Yorker, whose film critic despised the film's "Vulgarity [of] raw, eye-straining Technicolor" and "Singer Midgets"
9w0rQ TIL Mario is only "about 24-25 years old", according to his creator Shigeru Miyamoto.
KY0G9 TIL Violet Jessop is most well known for having survived the sinking of both the RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship the HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been onboard the eldest of the three sister ships, the RMS Olympic, when it collided with the British warship HMS Hawke in 1911