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TIL that in Japan you can visit Soineya, a co-sleeping specialty shop. It’s a cafe where you pay for sleeping (literally) or cuddling with a girl you like.

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OGnVR TIL that the Indian Army convened a press conference in 2019 to say that it had discovered footprints in the Himalayas that belonged to the YETI (Big Foot) and eventually mocked after it was found out that the DNA collected matched the local Black Bears
v1A9j TIL about the "Town Bully" that was killed in front of 40 people with no witnesses.
N7JQJ TIL Eric Clapton had a Cameo on the Corey Hart album "First Offense" playing on the "Sunglasses at Night" track.
v1MBK TIL the beaked masks used during the Bubonic Plague were often filled with flowers and herbs because putrid smells were thought to transmit diseases.
60Em TIL that Japan still executes people by hanging, with those on death row only notified the morning before the execution and are kept in solitary confinement until execution day.