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TIL of a trend in Japan called B-Style (Black Lifestyle), where Japanese people tan their skin dark, wear special contact lenses, and change their hair and fashion to emulate African Americans

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Oo8O1 TIL The Spanish city of Pontevedra banned all but essential car traffic in 1999, resulting in a 70% decrease in CO2 emissions and zero traffic-related deaths since 2009.
VMAlG TIL in psychology there is a principle called “contrast” (if you left a heavy item first then a light item second, the second item will feel lighter than actually it is). That’s why online businesses show you the expensive items first so the less expensive items seem cheap and affordable to you.
GNQJ TIL: Bill Gates is giving away all his money and leaving only 10m each to his 3 children so “they can make their own way.”
5V5mr TIL about the Beerhall Putsch, an early failed coup d'état by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler
D1Nar TIL in the 1910s there were cases of people using the postal service to mail their children across long distances because postage was cheaper than a train ticket