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TIL Japan has millions of abandoned homes called “akiya” due to a declining population

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ZRMD TIL that Qatar is 25% female.
xB8g TIL that negotiating with any country on behalf of the US is a felony if you haven’t been given the authority to do so.
wo81 TIL that if the North Koreans used their largest nuclear bomb on the Empire State Building, it wouldn’t even reach Central Park
noKr TIL that in 2007, while excavating for a new building in Central London, archeologists discovered the unmarked isolated remains of a teenage Roman girl. She was later reburied on site with full Roman burial rites, and her tomb is marked by a Latin inscription commemorating the “Unknown Roman Girl.”
Z8KrQ TIL: Romans used geese as guard animals.