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TIL a 2022 study revealed that 35% of the adults in Japan intend to "never travel" again. No other country "came close to the travel reluctance shown in Japan"; the next highest was South Korea at 15%.

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x6LnB TIL that there is an Episcopal saint, Rev. Charles Carroll Parsons, who was at one point the defense council to Lieutenant Colonel Custer who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
4RaJ TIL in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers after they refused to end their strike and subsequently banned them from federal service for life.
x604B TIL that household adventure brands such as The North Face, Timberland, Vans, Icebreaker, Altra plus a few others all belong to the same company VF Corporation.
R7xe4 TIL that Obskaya–Bovanenkovo Line is the most northerly railway in the world
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