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TIL that Los Angeles's economy is bigger than every state in America with just two exceptions: New York and Texas

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VMVbQ TIL the 1940 Olympics were to be held in Tokyo (summer) and Sapporo (winter), but both were cancelled because of WWII. If the 2020 Olympics are cancelled, Tokyo (and Sapporo, hosting the marathon) will be the only cities to have had the games cancelled twice.
99yp TIL that Japan requires citizens between the ages of 45 and 74 to have their waistlines measured once a year and are expected to fall within an established range. Companies and local governments may face fines if their employees are overweight and do not meet these guidelines.
nWaj7 TIL Body Integrity Identity Disorder is a rare, documented mental disorder which causes a severe dissociation with one’s own healthy extremities. Sufferers of BIID fantasize about becoming paralyzed, may use wheelchairs and leg braces, and may seek out surgical solutions for amputation fantasies.
d8yEE TIL Dogs can understand upto a 1000 human words. They can differentiate between nouns. and verbs. More importantly Dogs also feel emotions love, jealousy etc which was previously thought to be only present in primates. They can even read people better than chimps one of our closest genetic neighbour
WxrB TIL that in the novel Around the World in Eighty Days, not once do they travel by hot-air balloon. In fact, the text dismisses the idea as “highly risky and, in any case, impossible.”