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TIL The Association to Stop Racism Against Black People was a private organization founded in Japan in 1988. Based in Sakai, Osaka, the association was noted for causing publishers around Japan to suspend printing localized versions of the picture book The Story of Little Black Sambo.

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nexmr TIL the greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev, a peasant from Shuya, Russia who gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets.
Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October
NjJ6 TIL L. Ron Hubbard considered himself a nuclear physicist, though “His university records indicate that his exposure to ‘nuclear physics’ consisted of one class in 'atomic and molecular phenomena’ for which he earned an 'F’ grade.”
4XXrg TIL: Police officers and security guards often wear clip-on ties as a precaution against being strangled by a pulled necktie.
grbb9 TIL that some Japanese villages used to run farmland like a shared agricultural corporation: under Warichi, families held cultivation rights like "shares," and plots were regularly reassigned so everyone shared both the good fields and the flood-prone ones.