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TIL That despite being surrounded by technology, Japan still uses cash as their main payment method.

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Xva6 TIL On ‘Three’s Company’, John Ritter’s scrotum was briefly visible through his boxer shorts. John Ritter told the NY Observer when asked him about the controversy “I’ve requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t”
dD8bK TIL Loons are like airplanes in that they need a runway for takeoff. In the case of loons, they need from 30 yards up to a quarter-mile (depending on the wind) for flapping their wings and running across the top of the water in order to gain enough speed for lift-off.
6EKn7 TIL: Ingesting around 600 freshly ground cherry pits would provide enough cyanide to kill a 150 lb person
ODaY TIL Bill Murray was arrested in 1970 for trying to smuggle 10 pounds of marijuana through a Chicago airport
pY6Xb TIL many clocks and watches that use Roman numerals use IIII instead of IV for four, and no one is certain as to why