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TIL that Japanese football fans always clean up their stadium after their World Cup Finals games, a tradition stemming back to the 1998 World Cup

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R7Zb6 TIL that a dispute between Serbia and Kosovo back in 2018 over electricity caused numerous digital clocks across Europe to lose a minute of time.
m1nLR TIL 1816 was the "Year Without a Summer," due to very low temperatures. People believed the Sun was about to extinguish as large Sunspots were visible on it's surface, spreading doomsday panic. In actuality, the cause was due to Mt Tambora, the largest volcanic eruption in human history.
Z81kG TIL the Italian government gives 500 euros to teenagers on their 18 birthday to buy books
oReG8 TIL the fax machine was invented in 1843
p8aGO TIL that for 23 years, a Dallas family sent flowers to NASA mission control in Houston, before each of the 110 Shuttle missions since they resumed following the Challenger explosion.