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TIL the Yakuza operate openly in Japan: they have offices, make charitable donations, and even have large investments in mainstream companies

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KpYw TIL 1969, 90 percent of all children walked to school, as schools were part of complete neighborhoods, but in 2002 only 31 percent walked to school due to the impact of sprawl
X0oyX TIL of Tom Major Ball a circus performer who is listed as an inspiration for David Bowie’s “Major Tom”. Ball had numerous illegitimate children, had an affair with a co-star who later died on stage, sold garden gnomes as a business and in his 60’s, fathered future UK prime minister John Major.
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