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TIL that almost half of Japan’s Millennials between 18-34 are virgin and some find fault in the rise of economic status of Japanese women.

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R7mR8 TIL the 30s gangster movie that Macaulay Culkin used for his sound effects in Home Alone was actually a fake movie designed specifically for Home Alone.
6Ee98 TIL More than 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea every year.
bn09 TIL that there is a parasitic worm in grasshoppers that, when fully grown, makes the grasshopper seek water and drown to return the parasite to water.
GpJQ TIL Galileo sent two coded message to Keppler, that Saturn has rings, and that Venus has phases (circles the sun, not the earth), which Keppler incorrectly decoded as Mars has two moons and Jupiter has a big red spot. Although not what Galileo had written, both would later be proven true.
X78Q TIL a young Elvis Presley was once told “Stick to driving a truck, because you’ll never make it as a singer.”