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TIL The Japanese yakuza provided disaster relief for both the Kobe and Tohoku earthquakes.

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8eNvZ TIL The Copocabana in Barry Manilow's song is actually in New York. It is over 2000km north of Havana.
L5Vv TIL that the National Archives keeps the Nixon White House tapes in a climate controlled vault with hopes that future technological developments could allow for restoration of 18 ½ minutes of missing audio that may have been deliberately erased
X01ak TIL of the Antikythera Mechanism, a device discovered from a shipwreck in Greece. It has a calendar, star charts, planetary alignments, moon phases, etc. It is estimated to be created in first or second century BC.
XW5P TIL Clint Eastwood once went on strike before the filming of Sergio Leone’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”. His demands? A $250,000 salary, 10% of American profits, and a new Ferrari
Myp8 TIL that most Black Widow spider bites in the US occur in outhouses when a man’s penis dangles under the seat where spiders make their webs.