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TIL that Makoto Shinkai, director of the anime films Your Name, Weathering with You, and Suzume no Tojimari , had an asteroid named after him in 2018.

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VGWk TIL, Thomas Everett Blasingame was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years. At ninety-one, he was still on the job at the JA Ranch south of Amarillo. Two days after Christmas in 1989, he dismounted his horse, Ruidosa, stretched out on the grass, folded his arms across his chest, and died.
Lvxv TIL (or more so, remembered) that the US ARMY’s training manual says the “use of force (torture) is a poor technique, as it yields unreliable results, may damage subsequent collection efforts, and can induce the source to say whatever he thinks the interrogator wants to hear.”
Jarj TIL According to the World Health Organization, obesity has surpassed hunger as the greatest worldwide threat.
P1kGJ TIL that Charlie, from the 1971 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, never acted again, and recently retired from his large animal practice as a veterinarian.
p1Je TIL cremation ashes aren’t ashes at all ‘in truth they are comprised of pulverized bone fragments’