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TIL Hikone Castle is an Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is considered the most significant historical site in Shiga.

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mWGY TIL Jim Morrison , on LSD, was listening for the first time to “Joy to the World” - better known as “Jeremiah was a Bullfrog” - when he saw a monkey run into the room, start dancing, and juggling Christmas ornaments. It was not an hallucination.
nAm9 Today I learned that in 2013 we dropped thousands of parachuting dead mice packed with painkillers onto snakes in Guam.
epQM6 TIL for most engineering, scientific, and everyday computer calculations, only about 15 to 17 decimal places of Pi are used, because this matches the precision of double-precision floating-point numbers, the standard format for numerical calculations in modern processors
OGo4L TIL Blood donation centers are volunteer based in order to de-incentivize donors lying about their medical background and being disqualified
5Q7p TIL in 2006 Bill Murray joined an NYU archaeology team for a dig in the Mediterranean because he felt like it