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TIL Naoto Matsumura is the Most Radioactive Man on Earth. He continues to live alone in abandoned city Tomioka (affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster) to care for the animals left behind there.

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GYQgE TIL: the “selfie stick” was once considered so unnecessary that it was included in a Chindōgu book consisting of 101 Un-Useless Japanese Inventions by Kenji Kawakami. Chindōgu are things that are almost completely useless, but not quite.
Q5XX TIL Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. “This means that if your finger were the size of the Earth you could feel the difference between houses and cars.”
QYRk TIL in 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major-label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format
p8GLG TIL in 1981, a train engineer in India intentionally derailed his train to avoid hitting a cow, killing 600 people.
Lkmem TIL That Lobsters Communicate By Peeing At Each Others Faces