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TIL There are NO public or portable toilets provided for the New Years Celebration in Times Square.

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wLgWJ TIL There was an influx of Western tourists to Boracay after German writer Jens Peter called it "paradise on Earth" in his 1978 book. In the 1980s, the island became popular as a budget destination for backpackers. By the 1990s, Boracay's beaches were being acclaimed as the best in the world
4XBpR TIL video game composer Yuzo Koshiro created his own programming language just to make music for the Streets of Rage series.
jNLMj TIL that actor Vic Morrow was decapitated by a helicopter on the set of the Twilight Zone movie.
xVmLb TIL DavesFrameClass was the window class that drew the CPU meter on the Performance page of Task Manager
OoZ0L TIL crime in Japan has been on the decline for 14 years and is a country with too many police with not enough crime. The only demographic of criminals on the rise is the elderly with Japanese over 65 committing crime four time more than they did before.