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Today I Learned that high schools in Japan are optional to attend.

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7rDAX TIL that Malaysia was the first country to issue biometric passports in 1998.
9v9M TIL Before the United States dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan, it showered 35 Japanese cities, including Nagasaki & Hiroshima, with over 5,000,000 leaflets warning Japanese civilians of the impending destruction. (link to leaflet in comments)
kpdd TIL that The Go-Go’s were the first, and to date only, all-female band that both wrote their own songs and played their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.
N7opQ TIL about the Peter principle, where people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence"
NXjm8 TIL in 2001 a 13 year old boy scout went missing in Yellowstone Park for over 18 hours and used his belt buckle to reflect sunlight and signal passing planes. His signal was happened to be spotted by Harrison Ford.