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TIL that the age of consent in Japan is 13

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aw4YA TIL that Mark Knopfler agreed to allow Weird Al to parody "Money For Nothing" on the condition that Knopfler play the lead guitar on the track to add "authenticity."
nWmOr TIL that the first airplane ticket ever sold was bought by a reporter named Albert Beach in 1908 for a flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida. The ticket cost $400, which is equivalent to around $11,000 in today's currency.
QJ9AM TIL Pluto is often referred to as a "double planet" Its primary moon Charon (funnily enough pronounced Kar-en), is almost half the size of Pluto...yet exerts such an impact on Pluto that they actually orbit each other.
a8WdA TIL The largest cashew tree in the world covers an area around 90,000 sq ft (8,400 m2), has a circumference of 1,600 ft (500 m) and produces over 60,000 fruits each year.
mxDAE TIL of the Hmong people, who communicate by whistling - the valleys of the Himalayas they live in make for ideal transmission, sometimes carried as far as 8km. They even perform whistling courtship ceremonies, and once in a relationship, lovers can make up their own ‘secret’ syllables!