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TIL Japan has several "Nose Tombs" which contain tens of thousands of severed noses from Korea.

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AN9jn TIL that the Australian town Lightning Ridge got its name in the 1870s, when some passers-by found the bodies of a farmer, his dog, and 200+ sheep, which had been struck dead by lightning.
6MEZ TIL when asked about same-sex marriage in 1970, Richard Nixon said “I can’t go that far; that’s the year 2000! Negroes [and whites], okay. But that’s too far!”
M7EbW TIL of Harriet, a tortoise owned by Steve Irwin's Australia zoo that was estimated to be 175 years old when she died in 2006. Reportedly collected from the Galapagos by C.Darwin, she first arrived in Australia in the mid 19th century. For over 100 years, she was mistaken for a male and named Harry
W7xro TIL in Italy there is a movement that has been compared to fairtrade, that markets brands and venues as anti mafia and not paying the extortion money, especially in areas hit hard by organized crime
pAEG TIL that a Princeton University study concluded that African American college applicants get 230 points added to their SAT scores and Hispanics get 185, but Asians get penalized 50 points.