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TIL, in Australia, kangaroos kill more people than sharks.

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grKky TIL about the invariant right theory. This is the theory that most people will turn to their right when entering a store. It is theorized that people unconsciously favor turning right because most people are right handed.
DE5D TIL that, at one point, being randomly drugged with LSD was considered an “occupational hazard” while working in the CIA.
5BRP TIL that in 1998 and 2001, Japan enacted a set of modifications to Japanese law called the “Happy Monday System,” which schedules as many state holidays as possible on Mondays to create three-day weekends for those that normally work a five-day work week.
xVlA1 TIL Thomas Jefferson had sex with his slave and enslaved his own children.
KQ76 TIL that Japan was almost completely isolated from the outside world for over 200 years between the 17th and 19th centuries due to a policy called “Sakoku”. No foreigner could enter and no Japanese could leave the country under penalty of death.