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TIL of Wabi-Sabi, a principle of Japanese aesthetics that emphasizes beauty found in imperfection

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mxn1O TIL that during the 1918 flu pandemic the Governor of American Samoa John Martin Poyer quarantined the territory. American Samoa was one of the few places in the world to not suffer any flu deaths.