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TIL about a teacher called Osamu Mizutani who for 14 years patrolled the streets at night trying to persuade Japanese youth hanging around the streets to return to regular life while also responding to calls and emails.

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6gVW TIL 13 years after the video was shot, the techno viking is suing the cameraman who filmed him walking through the streets of Berlin
wLJEE TIL the I-710 freeway in Los Angeles was never finished because of opposition by residents in South Pasadena
D1EMD TIL Spanish-Filipino Marcelo A. Palmero the 13th Prime Minister of Spain became Prime Minister in 1897 during the Philippine Revolution and became Prime Minister two more times after Spain lost the Philippines as a colony.
Oodee TIL about the Chinese massacre of 1871 when a mob of around 500 White and Hispanic persons entered Old Chinatown in Los Angels and attacked, bullied, robbed, and murdered Chinese residents in cold blood.
6L9Q TIL 50% of marriages no longer end in divorce. It’s more like 35% if you married in the ‘90s, and 15% if you married in the 2000s.