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Z8KZo TIL When Japanese prime minister Keizō Obuchi was a young man and short on money, he travelled to thirty-eight countries, completely circumnavigating the globe and taking odd jobs as he went. These included being a dishwasher, an assistant aikido instructor and a TV camera crew assistant in Berlin
b9YK9 TIL after reading a translation of the Quran, Martin Luther was strongly against banning it, believing that it was better to tolerate Muslims and expose them to criticism.
7rOvP TIL the reason clocks run clockwise is because it is the way shadows move across a sundial in the northern hemisphere. The first clocks were designed that way because people wee just used to it.
nWX6r TIL that Johnny Nash, famous for his song "I Can See Clearly Now" (1972), sang the theme song for the 1960s cartoon "The Mighty Hercules".
N7PG8 TIL that Americanitis - a “condition” caused by too much stress, too little sleep, rushed meals and the fast paced advance of technology - was “cured” by the Great Depression.