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TIL Japanese train drivers must point at all important signs and warnings, this shows that they have noticed it and are aware of it.

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LQpJZ TIL about the Oh-My-God particle; an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray detected on 15 October 1991. As of 2023 it is the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed and the time of its detection it was traveling at 0.9999999999999999999999951 times the speed of light.
OoGr1 TIL that Lurleen Wallace could not seek appropriate treatment for cancer after her husband, Alabama segregationist George Wallace, kept it a secret from her for four years due to the fact that he wanted her to become Governor of Alabama. She died after only a year in office.
QJj7k TIL sometimes dead whales explode! This is because their think skin and flubber doesn't let the methane leak out when they're decomposing.
b9D7a TIL that some people don't have an inner internal monologue.
rrk4 TIL there is a Japanese word, kenjataimu, for the post-orgasmic period when a man’s thoughts are no longer impaired by his sexual drive and he can think clearly like a “sage” of clear mind.