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TIL: Japan has a conviction rate that exceeds 99%

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JYD94 TIL John Astin, the actor who played Gomez in the original sitcom The Addams Family, had pockets lined with asbestos. His character often pulled lit cigars out of his suit pockets, thus the need to line the jacket pockets with the deadly flame retardant
9w84B TIL the song 'Seasons in the Sun' was originally written about a man dying of a broken heart while accepting that his wife cheated on him many times, and was written in a brothel in Tangiers
Wk0L4 TIL that "Dumpster" is actually a brand name and that the generic name for the waste container is "skip" or "skip bin"
87rP TIL that the longest prison sentence in the world was 141,078 years for running a Thai pyramid scheme
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