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TIL that Buddhist monks distributed over 8 million sunflowers seeds to be planted on the hillside near Fukushima to absorb radioactive ingredients in the soil and water after the nuclear disaster.

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Y7gDP TIL Red Dwarf stars live for trillions of years, and no Red Dwarf has ever died in the history of the universe.
Me4L7 TIL that Vincent Van Gogh might have been murdered by a teenage bully who dressed as a cowboy.
epyvn TIL that after Encyclopedia Britannica stopped its publication in 2012, ending a 244 year run of published volumes, World Book remains the only encyclopedia still in print
rRk7e TIL in Japan ~%99 of people are cremated. After cremation, the family uses chopsticks to transfer the bones out of the ash and into an urn. This is the ONLY time is acceptable to pass anything from chopsticks to chopsticks. Doing such outside of a funeral can remind bystanders of a recent funeral.
wOG8 TIL of the Parsley Massacre, a government-sponsored genocide of ethnic Haitian civilians in 1937. Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask “What is this?”; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley would determine his/her fate.