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TIL Japan is the vending machine capital of the world and that machines can dispense free supplies in the event of disasters

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Lk1M0 TIL some people have a fourth cone in their eyes, allowing them to see an estimated 100 million extra nuances of color
bmV4 TIL there’s a website containing thousands of first hand accounts of slavery from former slaves. Many (if not most) of the former slaves have nothing but positive things to say about their former masters.
p8EoN TIL that there is a species of velvet spider where the mothers liquefy their internal organs to regurgitate for their spiderlings to eat. Once the mother is no longer able to regurgitate, the young eat her.
0w8nM TIL about Ralph Lazo, a Mexican-American who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp (Manzanar) to join his Japanese-American friends and neighbors. He was the only known non-spouse, non-Japanese American at Manzanar, where he lived for 2.5 years.
wo8mP TIL The World Factbook, published by the CIA, lists Australia’s coastline at 25,760 km (16,007 miles) and Japan’s at 29,751 km (18,486 miles). The World Factbook is wrong according to other measures which put Australia's coastline at 66,530 km (41,340 miles)