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TIL of a place called Monkey's Eyebrow, Kentucky

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awbEZ TIL that Japan does not have as many forest fires as the US although Japan is largely covered with vast forests and has really hot summers.
xVJA1 TIL Instead of “pass/fail” Japanese students used to receive college entrance exam results via telegram with a message, “cherry blossoms are blooming” (pass), or “cherry blossoms are falling” (fail).
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.
1ag4X TIL of Huang Yijun, a 92-year-old woman who delivered a 60-year-old "stone baby" (calcified fetus) in 2009
gMEE4 TIL of Lucy Ann Johnson, a woman who disappeared in September 1961. Her husband reported her missing in 1965, and he was suspected of her murder. In 2013, Johnson was found alive. She said that she had left because her husband had been abusive.