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TIL a 2001 study found up to 70% of female high school students in Tokyo had been groped while riding the train

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JY0bk TIL that America has 3.1% of the world's kids but buys 40% of the world's toys. (University of California, 2013)
b8wj TIL that King Vladimir I of Kiev converted the Rus to Christianity instead of Islam because of the prohibition on alcohol, saying “Drinking is the joy of all Rus.”“
gQdb TIL that two days before Chuck Yeager’s historic first flight to break the sound barrier, he fell off a horse and broke two ribs. He did not tell anyone, apart from his wife, and his friend Jack Ridley, who made him a device to close the X-1’s hatch out of a broom handle.
nLdr TIL Bruce Willis bought 12,000 girl scout cookies from his daughter and sent them to troops in the middle east and sailors among the USS John F Kennedy