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TIL black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.

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Z880R When there's not enough of it, unwanted memories take over.
W7pVd TIL the world record for having hiccups is 68 years. Charles Osborne hiccuped roughly 30 times per minute from 1922 to 1990.
OGxXX TIL during the 1984 Olympics, the new conglomerate Beatrice Foods ran so many commercials that they began alienating consumers, since the ad campaign made it clear that numerous brands were part of a far-reaching multinational corporation.
kOB01 TIL that, in 1943, four boys in Worcestershire found a skeleton inside a tree trunk, with its hand some distance away. In 1944, graffiti was found nearby saying "Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm", along with other messages. Neither the skeleton nor the writer of the graffiti has ever been identified.
grQG7 TIL in the late 1990s, McDonald's began implementing its "Made For You" system into its restaurants, which did away with a decades-old process of making sandwiches by the batch ahead of time and putting them in warming bins.