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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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7ZlO TIL Lake Natron is so alkaline that any animals that die in it are turned into calcified statues
ADa5g TIL: During the 1920 Olympics in Belgium a man who had just come third in the diving stole the official Olympic flag as a dare. He returned it 103 years old in the year 2000
7dwb TIL on April 1, 2007, Google sent an email to all of its employees warning that a python was loose inside of their New York office. It was not a joke.
1bj8 TIL (never having made it that far) that QWOP was a long jump competition
DEJJ TIL asbestos in the United States has not been banned and is totally legal. When the Environmental Protection Agency tried to ban it, supporters of the asbestos industry actually overturned the ban in a lawsuit. It is still widely used in products to this day.