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TIL That most graves in Okinawa have a small courtyard in front for hosting family parties

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9Y4eM TIL that out of the 50,000 workers that could have been in the world trade centre on September 11th 2001, only around 19,000 were there that day for two main reasons; because people were late taking their kids to the first day of school and voting at local polling station for the mayoral election
D1myY TIL about a world view known as Wabi Sabi that appreciates imperfection instead of disparaging it.
gGX7 TIL that the Pacific Ocean is so big it has its own antipodes (two points on exact opposite sides of the earth)
Vyx0 TIL that Antarctica was not discovered until 1820
gMrJb TIL in the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 there were too many bodies to bury so the corpses were dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Shortly thereafter the bodies began to wash back onshore and survivors constructed funeral pyres to burn the corpses. The fires burned day and night for weeks.