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TIL that there is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years.

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j6Rrj TIL many keyboards in Japan have small space bars to make room for a language switching key
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69BGw TIL In the 1600s a Dutch doctor Cornelius Bontekoe prescribed a cup of tea as a cure all to ailments. As a cup of tea caught on as a popular drink it led to a drop in mortality rates between 7%-25% across England as boiling coincidentally improved water quality
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