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DpQp TIL Congress’s calendar for 2013 consisted of 239 days off.
Kyr6 TIL that every week in Japan, there’s a widely-popular, five-minute-long TV program that features a girl running up a hill. That’s it. Each week, there’s a different girl and a different hill. It’s called, “Zenryoku Saka”.
a8DB9 TIL that Titanic survivor Jack Thayer wrote an account of the sinking in 1940, that was so accurate that it helped Robert Ballard pinpoint where the wreck of the ship was.
68gw TIL that Tsar Peter III of Russia court-martialed and hanged a rat which had chewed the heads off his toy soldiers.
neJ7B TIL Sleeping under a weighted blanket can help reduce insomnia, depression and anxiety