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TIL the island of Himakajima, Japan, has a single set of traffic lights and turns green only once a year to teach kids how to cross roads safely before they move to the mainland

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ANrn TIL Sparta’s best general, Alcibiades, lead attacks on Athens that nearly destroyed it. Then he switched sides, used his knowledge of Sparta to lead Athens to military victories which forced Sparta to sue for peace. Also Socrates, his homosexual lover, once saved his life in battle.
1aZyP TIL that the inventor of Vaseline, who lived to be 96, swore that eating a spoonful of Vaseline each morning was beneficial to health.
xVLD TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis once took a 5 year hiatus from filmmaking by moving to Italy and becoming a cobbler’s apprentice.
PYrVw TIL: Nebraska is the only state in the union with a unicameral nonpartisan legislature.
Xlxj TIL Learned helplessness is a condition in which a person suffers from a sense of powerlessness, arising from a traumatic event or persistent failure to succeed. It is thought to be one of the underlying causes of depression.