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TIL Samurai usually wrote poems before ritual suicide.

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ANXXd TIL in 2013, astronaut Chris Hadfield took a picture of Berlin at night from the International Space Station which showed the division between the former east and west through its streetlights. East Berlin looks orange due to sodium vapor lamps while West Berlin looks white due to fluorescent lamps.
oBAB7 TIL: From 1919 to 1969, college home economics programs in the US would rent babies from orphanages for young women to practice mothering
oBMer TIL the proper way to dispose of an American flag is to burn it and bury the ashes
KOW6J TIL in 2010, Iran banned mullets, adding it to a list of hairstyles it deemed "decadent Western cuts" and "un-Islamic."
GYbv1 TIL an Italian rower lost his gold medal in the river after he was thrown in in a celebration