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TIL Friday the 13th has become the busiest day of the year for tattoo artists and has become something of a Black Friday for tattoo shops.

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OoJna TIL that Michelin Tires started Michelin Restaurant guide 11 years after the tire company in hopes of encouraging people travel for good restaurants and wearing out their tires, and then buying more tires.
kOnL5 TIL as late as 2018 an 26 year old American missionary illegally attempted to christianize an isolated tribe living on an island of the indian ocean, and was killed shortly after landing. His body was not retrieved and no legal charges were pursued.
7nYO TIL that China banned the video game Football Manager because it treated Taiwan and Tibet as separate countries and was deemed “harmful to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
16aoP TIL that the Korean War never ended. Although the fighting between North and South Korea and their respective allies ended in July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, no peace treaty was ever signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.
yQ7lp TIL The guy who made the music for Spyro the Dragon is also the drummer for The Police.