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TIL That Japanese people have a literacy rate of almost 100%.

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GYpPN TIL that in many counties, the coroner is the only law enforcement officer who has the authority to arrest the county sheriff, part of why county coroner is an elected position.
8ya8 TIL that John Adams, the first vice president of the United States of America described vice presidency as “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived”
KYWmG TIL that after a drunken fracas on a flight to Sydney in 1968, The Who were forced to leave Australia and subsequently received a telegram from the then Prime Minister to never return. They would not return until 2004.
rN1rW TIL glutamate accumulation in the prefrontal cortex during demanding tasks was linked to cognitive fatigue.
99kM TIL there is a city in the Caspian sea built ontop of sunken oil tankers.