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TIL That there’s a whole demographic of “Homeless” Japanese youth who live and sleep solely in Internet Cafés.

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yW88 TIL that a doctor attempted to use drugs to keep James Madison alive so he could die on the 4th of July, just like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe.
rRdw0 TIL Due to the variety of its ecosystems, which include mountains, woods, plains, largely uninhabited territories, streams, rocky coasts, and long sandy beaches, the island of Sardinia has been defined metaphorically as a micro-continent.
9667 TIL that the architect who designed Washington DC walked away in anger and took the plans with him but a man named Benjamin Banneker, who had glanced at them, reproduced his designs from memory and that’s the Washington DC we have today.
dx6E TIL Seth Rogen paid the bills and was the main wage earner of the family by the age of 16
R76Ja TIL about the Anti-Rent War, a tenets revolt in upstate New York where renters declared their independence from the manor system run by patroons, resisting tax collectors and successfully demanding land reform.