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TIL A Japanese Train driver killed himself over 50 seconds delay

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JYrA1 TIL About a 30-foot tall tree stump that has been floating upright in Crater Lake, OR since 1896. Dubbed the "Old Man of the Lake" the stump 450 years old, is strong enough to stand on, and is known to drift against the wind.
x60pB TIL that Muhammad Ali’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is mounted on a wall instead of the sidewalk. He requested the placement because of his shared name with the Islamic Prophet and felt it would be disrespectful for people to walk on it.
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