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TIL that Yakuza gangs in Japan hold public press conferences to announce changes in gang policies and news.

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W7OZA TIL that a Romanian Orthodox priest and four nuns were jailed after they accidentally killed another nun in 2005 during an exorcism. They mistook her schizophrenia symptoms for demonic possession.
JXRl TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.
N7VX8 TIL that the wedding dress of then-Princess Elizabeth was made out of materials bought with ration coupons, which she saved up.
0wxZ1 TIL that Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 ran on its own operating system and was used at that time to verify if IBM PC clones were 100% compatible.
D1m0v TIL some people sneeze when they think dirty thoughts