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TIL Shinjuku Station in Tokyo is the busiest transport hub in the world - used by an average of 3.6 million people per day

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5W0Q TIL that after the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, the U.S. fired missiles at a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan, suspecting that it was related to Al-Qaeda. The following medicine shortage led to tens of thousands of civilian deaths.
Ld8d TIL In 1997 Charles Barkley was in court because he threw a man out of a first floor window during a bar fight. When asked by a judge if he regretted anything he replied, “yeah, I regret we weren’t on a higher floor.”
VBplZ TIL that a fan-made music video for the song Sail by AWOLNATION has 370 million views, over 100 million views more than the official music video
krYm TIL a death row inmate who avoided the electric chair accidentally electrocuted himself on a toilet
v1Rpr TIL that after Beethoven went deaf, he found he could affix a metal rod to his piano and bite down on it while he played, enabling him to hear perfectly through vibrations in his jawbone. The process is called bone conduction.