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TIL about Japanese Kangiten inspired by the Indian Ganesha

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D1MOe TIL NASA will pay you $19,000 to lay in bed for two months!
peOO TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
l7KYN TIL that British Lawyers and Judges still regularly wear wigs in court.
pYBre TIL Massachusetts highwayman James Allen's deathbed confession was later copied into a book bound by his own skin.
a8NAM TIL that MLB player Marty Bergen, who killed his entire family and himself in 1900, still received a few votes for the Hall of Fame.