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TIL that in 2018 Okayama, Japan bus drivers strike by continuing to run routes and refusing to take anyone’s money.

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l4MB TIL that after Japanese War Criminal Hideki Tojo was arrested, he was given new dentures while he awaited a trial, the American dentist who made them secretly drilled “Remember Pearl Harbour” into them in morse code
mGgM TIL that cemeteries cause pollution of groundwater due to the decay of corpses
rNW8w TIL In 1769 Alexander Wilson used a Gregorian telescope, with a 26 inch focus and 112 power, to observe an extraordinary sunspot. He concluded that it was a vast excavation in the luminous matter of the Sun