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TIL Japan is Having a Shortage of Ninjas Despite Offering $85,000 Salary

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8mA8 TIL a 2007 lawsuit against GM could have brought deadly ignition switch failures to light — but the case was not pursued since Wisconsin law limits liability to $350,000 per death. GM issued a recall 7 years later, and paid $1.475 billion in fines and settlements.
MepYm TIL the tsunami of Christmas 2004 created a massive cliff 750 miles long and 50 feet high.
MJ0a TIL when asked how they discovered the hallucinogenic properties of the plants used in the ayahuasca brew, Many indigenous Amazonian people said they “received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits”.
nWXvo TIL that some copies of RADIOHEAD's "Kid A" have a secret booklet hidden under the black CD tray
QJPxk TIL In October 1986 Soviet submarine K-219 suffered an explosion and sank in the mid Atlantic with an estimated 30+ nuclear warheads aboard. The cause for this explosion is contested to this day.