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TIL there’s an island in Japan populated with more stray cats than humans

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pagO TIL Burning Mountain in Australia is the site of a coal fire which has been burning for 6,000 years.
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8YPP TIL in Japan’s universal health care system hospitals, by law, must be run as non-profit and be managed by physicians. For-profit corporations are not allowed to own or operate hospitals.
X059Q TIL “☪️OE✡️IS✝️” was designed by a Piotr Mlodozeniec for a contest held by an art museum in Jerusalem. The design gained popularity when Indians students trademarked it and sold it on shirts. Their legal team then reached out to Mlodozeniec for permission to use it so they could sue a competitor.
E1QRV TIL of Mikhail Krichevsky, the longest-living veteran of the First World War. When he died in 2008 at age 111, he was the last surviving veteran of the Tsar's army