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TIL The Japanese Embassy in Paris (France) has a 24-hour hotline for Japanese Tourists who develop debilitating psychological problems because the city is not as nice as they imagined it to be.

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VMbvB TIL that there was a long running hoax during World War II that Adolf Hitler was the inventor of the sex dolls. It was deemed as the "Borghild Project" and was "aimed at combating the spread of syphilis among Nazi troops by supplying the men with sex dolls."
xVAy5 TIL: John Major, British Prime Minister (1990-1997), left school at 15 and only completed his O-levels years later by correspondence; this would be the equivalent of US president having only a GED.
VpOp TIL that Detroit had 2,123 instances of violent crime per 100,000 residents in 2013 and remains America’s most dangerous city
e0kog TIL one of the 'unwritten rules' of the Tour de France: if the Tour is passing through where one of the riders grew up, everyone will slow down to let that rider lead the whole Tour through his hometown (also, if the race leader needs to stop to take a pee break, everyone else slows down/stops too)
6Em5Y TIL I learned that the boy with the spoon from matrix was credited "Spoon boy"