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TIL When people are found dead in the wilderness with no outward signs of injury, they check their eardrums, and if they’re not intact, they know that the cause of death was lightning.

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xVLl0 TIL Japan's high schools often have strict standards of conformity regarding hair color. Half of Tokyo's schools require students whose hair is not naturally black to provide baby pictures as proof; in 2017 a Japanese student sued her school after being forced to darken her hair with dye.
Neg6 TIL that in today’s dollars, John D. Rockefeller’s net worth would be around $663 billion.
bDD9 TIL when a Russian man’s family died in a 2002 plane crash over Germany, he tracked down the air traffic controller he felt was responsible and murdered them in front of their family. For this, he spent 3 years in a Swiss prison, then returned home and was appointed as a deputy to a govt. ministry.
5LEp TIL The Emperor of Japan is the only remaining monarch in the world with the tittle ‘Emperor’
0rVp TIL Matthew McConaughey has a food fetish and sometimes has to stop eating because he gets too sexually aroused by the food