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TIL that Tokyo has a massive underground water storage area to deal with typhoons and flooding

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E1Nyo TIL that Elizabeth Taylor once reached out to Marlyin Monroe privately and told her “No matter what they write about me, Marilyn, I never deny it. I never confirm it. I just keep smiling and walking forward. You do the same." after the press constantly tried to pit the two against each other.
ejrb TIL the Canadian postal code for the North pole is H0H 0H0
kLY7 TIL the guy who played Scotty in Star Trek shot two snipers on D-Day and was shot seven times in WWII
D7ED TIL Aribert Heim, aka Dr. Death because of the horrific experiments he performed on Jews during the Holocaust, evaded capture be escaping Germany and converting to Islam, living in Egypt under the name Tarek Hussein Farid until his death in 1992.
VBJJ8 TIL that the term “brain freeze,” to describe a cold-stimulus headache, is a registered trademark of 7-Eleven.