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TIL Ginza street in Tokyo Japan is closed to cars on certain timings during weekends and public holidays.

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GmW5 TIL Pee-Wee’s house in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure was a residential home owned by a “Chinese woman who barely spoke English” in Pasadena, CA. The director painted it fire engine red. “When we went in to do the house and painted it red, she was terrified that everyone would think she was a Communist.“
epjyk TIL that in the late 1600s Emperor K'ang Hsi, who had survived smallpox as a child, had his children inoculated. That method involved grinding up smallpox scabs and blowing the matter into nostril. Inoculation may also have been practiced by scratching matter from a smallpox sore into the skin.
yrLe TIL that a woman accidentally dropped her engagement ring into a homeless man’s change cup. The man, Billy Ray Harris, returned the ring to the woman. A fund was started by the woman and her husband to raise money for Harris. Three months later they had raised over $190,000.
OGYV4 TIL of the Oriflamme. It was the battle standard of the King of France during the Middle Ages. When raised during battle, no prisoners were to be taken until it was lowered
lokxB TIL that the Chicxulub impact crater (from the asteroid that killed the non-avian dinosaurs) can be seen today as a series of sinkholes. The buried rock on the rim of the crater redirects groundwater that causes the limestone above it to dissolve and form sinkholes called cenotes.