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TIL Baseball is so popular in Japan that many fans are surprised to discover its status as America’s national pastime.

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eAXE TIL That every purple heart awarded by the military since 1945 is one of the 500,000 purple hearts manufactured in anticipation of U.S. casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. There 120,000 left.
GYWwG TIL The federal statute of limitations on bank robbery is only 5 years.
OGNxY TIL that the only two Nobel laureates in Physics of Indian origin were an uncle-nephew duo: CV Raman and S Chandrasekhar.
neY0b TIL: Albert Einstein was Charlie Chaplin's special guest at the 1931 premiere of Chaplin's movie, City Lights. The two became friends, and Chaplin would go on to remember Einstein fondly in his autobiography.
dDZgB TIL - The highly coveted Akhal-Teke horse was involved in the first war over horses in 104 BC and 102 BC, deemed the "War of the Heavenly Horses", fought between the Chinese Han Dynasty and the Persians. In victory, the prize of “T’ien ma” or Heavenly Horses allowed China to grow a strong cavalry.