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TIL 600 years ago the Japanese placed ancient stone markers along the coastline to warn future generations not build there due to the risk of tsunamis

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nY0G TIL The so called GTA gang killed 17 motorists between 2013 and 2014. It operated by stopping random cars at night on Moscow highways and then shooting dead its passengers at point-blank range for no apparent reason.
p8Q8e TIL that Hellen Keller learned to recognize and reproduce speech by putting her fingers on the throat, lips, and nose of the speaker.
9mxp TIL that Operation Christmas Drop, a training exercise where the US Air Force drops presents and supplies in Micronesia, is the longest running humanitarian air lift in the world. Supplies and presents have been dropped every Christmas since 1952.
jNeGM TIL there are various types of planned obsolescence, such as: contrived durability, prevention of repairs, perceived obsolescence, systemic obsolescence, and programmed obsolescence.
bvxa TIL that the longest movie ever, called The Cure for Insomnia was 87 hours of “artist L. D. Groban reading his 4,080-page poem "A Cure for Insomnia” over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos.“