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TIL most of Japanese schools don’t have janitors. Instead there is a tradition of students cleaning their own classrooms and school.

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X0raj TIL that, over the course of their lifetime, 1 in 10 Icelanders will publish a book.
nRmP TIL Steve Jobs could have avoided a premature death from cancer by having it properly treated, he refused it for 9 months, believing an alternative-medicine diet would be better. It was one of Steve Jobs’ most notable regrets.
aj1J TIL the US military had a backpack nuke (S.A.D.M.) that could be carried by a single person.
ZpegB TIL that a Far Cry film, based on the video game, was released in 2006. Directed by Uwe Boll, it was a major box-office bomb, making only $743,000 against a $30 million budget.
RPLa TIL Vincent Van Gogh did not complete his first major work of art until 5 years before his death, and that his body of work went mostly unnoticed until after his suicide.