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TIL that in Japan, most people are born Shinto, have their weddings at a church, and have funerals at Buddhist temples.

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VB5k TIL in 2011 a 75-year old woman stole some fiber optic cable, cutting 2 entire countries off the internet.
kOxjW TIL of Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, who was thrown overboard when his ship was torpedoed and sunk in WW1. He was picked up by another ship, which was also torpedoed and sunk. He then swam to third ship, which was also torpedoed and sunk. He survived the war.
j6yQN TIL 12-year-old Bahia Bakari was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed her mom & 151 others. She had little swimming experience & no life vest. So she clung to a piece of the wreckage & floated in heavy seas for over 9 hours, much of it in darkness, before being rescued.
xbZ0 TIL that in one year, a man made fourteen successive trades to turn his red paperclip into a house.
yvNJ TIL that the Big Ben is the name of the largest of the five bells which hang within the clock and not the name of the landmark clock.