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TIL that to solve their issue of crime syndicates attending shareholder meetings and blackmailing members, Japanese businesses decided to hold all their annual meetings on the same day because the syndicates would not have enough people to send to all of them.

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MYZV TIL in ‘92, a doctor was accused of raping a woman while she was sedated in his office. He was cleared after DNA tests did not match. It was later discovered that he foiled the DNA test by implanting a tube of another man’s blood under his skin.
pYJjp TIL Albert Lexie was a shoeshiner who worked at the Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh beginning in the early 1980s. Over the course of his roughly 30-year career he donated $200,000 to the Free Care Fund, more than a third of his lifetime salary.
1aXdV TIL that the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry dated a deaf women actually hired a deaf actor. Her name is Marlee Matlin, and she is the only deaf performer to win an academy award.
Ypp7P TIL that cats can recognize their owners voices, just never evolved to care
OG5b6 TIL that China has a higher life expectancy than the U.S.