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TIL that in the months after the 2011 quake in northeastern Japan, taxi drivers reported picking up "ghost passengers" in the coastal town of Ishinomaki where nearly 6,000 people died in the tsunami.

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VZRG TIL the five largest meat companies in the US dumped 48,229,609 pounds of toxic pollutants into waterways in 2014 according to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
wLk5E TIL Issac Wright Jr. served nine years of a life sentence related to drug charges before being exonerated. He studied law feverishly while he was imprisoned, and in 2017 he was sworn in as a licensed attorney and granted admission to the bar of the New Jersey Supreme Court
p8Vw4 TIL difficulty remembering things is one common symptom of sleep deprivation. Since the brain does not have sufficient time to create new pathways for the information you’ve recently learned, sleep deprivation often affects how memories are consolidated.
awyQL TIL: The three horizontal black lines on the side of a school bus are there for emergency responders. In an emergency where the doors and windows can't be opened and they need to cut into the bus, the lines show the positions of the floor boards, the bottom of the seats, and the top of the seats.
gMoW8 TIL that U2 has performed only one show without the full band; Adam Clayton got so drunk the night before a show in Sydney that he couldn't go on stage and was replaced by one of the band's technicians. Clayton felt so bad he missed the show that he quit drinking.