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TIL that a third of japan’s adults are virgins

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neX7d TIL about "kulning", a Norwegian song using high-pitched vocal techniques to call cows in from the pastures.
aRMM TIL Run is the English word with the most definitions
6rjJ TIL That the Japanese school year is 240 days long, giving their students three more years of total instruction received compared to an American High School grad.
XLaR TIL that British Navy ships during the 18th Century would often have a fictitious “widow’s man” listed as part of their crew. The pay received by this “man” would be sent to the families of dead crew members.
6n4Q TIL that in 1970 the US Postal Service decided on a strike after a Congressional decision to raise the wages of postal workers by only 4%, at the same time as Congress raised its own pay by 41%