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TIL that Japan is moving an entire 400-year-old castle 230 feet away to fix its foundations. They’ll move it back in 2021.

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E6rx TIL: A group of scientists believe Dolphins should be treated as non-human “persons”, with their rights to life and liberty respected as they are self-aware
XR7R TIL of Granny, the oldest orca in the world who has been swimming since 1911. She’s 105 years old.
Nmy6 TIL that tomato juice in the United States is often made from tomato paste, but Canadian regulations require fresh tomatoes.
v1nOr TIL despite maximum speed of 200 mph and carrying over 10 billion passengers, there hasn't been a single recorded fatality from the Japanese Bullet Train
n1Ar TIL in their latest film ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ stop motion animation studio LAIKA used 3d printing for the Kubo character giving him 11,007 unique mouth expressions and 4,429 brow expressions, allowing for over 48 million possible facial expressions.