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TIL that there's a Japanese political party that's solely dedicated to abolishing the current mandatory payment of subscription fees to NHK, national broadcasting agency. It's called the Party to Protect the People from the NHK.

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6jP7 TIL for every person alive today, only 15 people have died through all of human history.
QJxE6 TIL of the 1971 QANTAS bomb hoax, where a $500,000 ransom was paid to disclose the location of a bomb onboard a QANTAS flight that would detonate if the plane flew below 20,000ft. There was never a bomb on board, and half the ransom is still unrecovered.
kOwem TIL that our strongest memories are usually widely inaccurate. It feels like memories of traumatic events “burn” themselves into our minds to remain there forever, but studies have shown that the stronger the emotional state you were in during that event, the more inaccurate the memory is.
0wgoR TIL the longest-running experiment is the pitch drop experiment. A funnel holding a sample of tar pitch sealed in a glass jar shows how some substances that appear solid are actually liquid. It takes 10 years for a single drop to form. The best known version of the experiment was started in 1927.
woKO7 TIL that during the revolutionary war, significantly more African Americans fought for the British than did for the Americans. These fighters would be coined as Black Loyalists.