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

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LQQ1v TIL Most modern Fire Trucks and Engines don't have keys
Z8eyR Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" was the first YouTube music video to reach 100 million views, doing so back in 2008.
9Yr0X TIL about Joseph Trombino, a Brinks security guard who, after being shot multiple times in the famed armored car robbery of 1981, was almost killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and eventually lost his life during the 9/11 attacks while making a delivery in the North Tower.
xVAQk TIL President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda hold the Guinness World Record for "Greatest Robbery of a Government". They stole hundreds of millions of dollars causing the total national loss from between $5 and $10 billion
nM9Y TIL of Arithmomania, a compulsion suffered by vampires to count seeds or grains of rice, ergo why on the American TV show Sesame Street, the character Count von Count is always shown counting various objects