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TIL Japan has a high adoption rate - but most of the adoptees are middle aged men

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bR0a TIL The oldest running company still in operation today is a hotel in Japan named Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, which was created in 705AD.
p7YQ TIL a convicted member of the Mafia escaped from his prison cell by sawing through the bars… with dental floss… in the year 2000
e0mND TIL While film has popularized the use the language of the Navajo as the basis for building a hard to break code during WW2, the UK also had it's own unbreakable code: Welsh.
lYRN TIL To guard the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier you must be in superb condition, have a perfect military record, be 5'10"-6'4", a proportionate weight/build, memorize 7 pages of history, recited verbatim, learn grave locations of 300 vets. After several months, they’re tested on the cemetery and Tomb.
80vG TIL Ray Bradbury, in an interview with the Paris Review, stated “You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do – and they don’t.”