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TIL you can pay a travel agency in Tokyo to take your stuffed animal on a vacation – without you.

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BrYND Today I learned Y2K was never an issue because people spent years and over $100 billion USD to keep disaster from happening.
9wvp TIL Harrison Ford was paid $10000 for Star Wars
ogXR TIL 100 years ago yesterday, an African man killed himself after being held in a Bronx zoo as a “missing link”.
xXY7 TIL that during the Dust Bowl, one Texas town paid a man to fire off rockets carrying an explosive mixture of dynamite and nitroglycerin to induce rain.
LkDW0 TIL that 'OK' is thought to be the most frequently spoken or written word on the planet, and likely originated from a 1840's fad of "comical misspellings" which turned 'all correct' to 'oll korrect'. A nearly 200 year old meme, basically.