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TIL that the Japanese national anthem is the shortest in the world - a 34 character poem.

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9YAE7 TIL that the Soviet gold medalist Elena Mukhina was forced back to practice with an unhealed broken leg, which didn't give her enough power to do a flip and broke her neck on the mat making her quadriplegic for life in 1980. After the accident she said "Thank God I don't have to go to the Olympics".
MWoa TIL David Bowie did not have heterochromia (two different colored iris) but a permanently dilated pupil secondary to trauma.
rN0QM TIL that the Emperor Vespasian issued out a tax on urine collected from public toilets
XEpYE TIL that on 4 June 2012, the Shanghai Stock Exchange fell exactly 64.89--Almost certainly a coincidence, but was viewed as threat by authorities due to the association with the Tienanmen Square Massacre (6/4/89); Today, China censors all information related to the index that day.
X0kwD TIL there that there is a Township in Ontario which has 61 letters, as it consists of the names of every village and hamlet in its borders. Most Ontario Townships and forced-amalgamated rural towns simply use the name of one of the communities as the official legal name.