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Jul 03, 2020

TIL A train station in Japan had plans to close but noticed a student was the only one using it. They decided to keep it operational until she graduated!

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Jun 20, 2020

TIL that the 2011 earthquake in Japan was so powerful that it shifted the entire island 8 feet to the East (up to 13 feet in some regions) and shifted the Earth's axis by over 6 inches.

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Jun 06, 2020

TIL there's a Japenese diver who tends an underwater Shinto shrine and has been greeted by the same fish for the past 25 years

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Jun 06, 2020

TIL that during WWII JFK was stranded in the solomon islands, and ended up carving a message into a coconut, that a native delivered to the nearest US base and saved his life

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May 10, 2020

TIL that Nintendo can trace its origins back to the time of the Ottoman Empire and even ran brothels to supplement their trading card business.

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Apr 24, 2020

TIL Mamoru Samuragochi is a deaf Japanese composer, who known as the “digital-age Beethoven” and creator of Onimusha’s OST. But, it later turned out that all of his works in 18 years were actually written by a ghost writer. And his deafness is all fake

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Feb 08, 2020

TIL that in the 2018 Hawaii false missle alert, PornHub offered an unusual sociological report. After the alert was sent, traffic on PornHub dropped 77%. Nearly an hour after people were informed of a false alarm, PornHub traffic jumped to 48% more than normal from people relieving themselves.

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Jan 24, 2020

TIL that a Japanese TV show apparently hired 3 experts in fluid mechanics, engineering, and dentistry to determine the best way to hold a burger. After 4 months of research, they concluded that your pinkie and thumb should be on the bottom, while the remaining fingers should be on top of the burger.

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Jan 19, 2020

TIL That the famous deaf-blind writer Hellen Keller received a gift from a Japanese police officer who gave her an Akita dog named Kamikaze-Go as a present. After the dog's death Japan’s government gifted another Akita, making her the first person to bring the dog breed to the U.S. In 1948

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Jan 16, 2020

TIL that in the Yakuza, pinkies are amputated for transgressions. There is a woman in Japan that handcrafts new pinkies for former members. They help reformed criminals regain a normal life. The fake tip, which lasts 5-10 years, slides on to the existing stub like a lid on to a pen.

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Jan 14, 2020

TIL the oldest continuously ongoing company in the world is a construction company in Japan specializing in Buddhist temples. Established in 578 CE, it is as old as the time when Buddhism was introduced into Japan in 538 CE. In 2007, after 1,429 years in business, it ran out of money.

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Dec 30, 2019

TIL that a cannibal named Issei Sagawa has profited from his crimes. After murdering and eating his classmate in 1981, he was released due to a loophole and has translated his fame into books, talk show appearances, and even softcore porn films in which he bites his co-stars.

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Dec 22, 2019

TIL of Lala the King Penguin trained to go to the fish shop alone

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Dec 16, 2019

TIL: In Japan, yonige-ya, "run away at night" or “fly-by-night”, companies service people who want to become johatsu, “evaporated people”, who are people who want to disappear and never be found.

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Dec 15, 2019

TIL: People in Tokyo stand on the left side of the escalator while in Kyoto & Osaka people stand on the right, for a reason that has never been definitively determined

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Nov 10, 2019

TIL 80's pop group Spandau Ballet got their name after seeing it written on a nightclub toilet. Spandau Ballet actually refers to prisoner hangings at Spandau Prison and their twitching and jumping at the end of the rope.

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Oct 23, 2019

TIL Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.

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Oct 02, 2019

TIL Japan created a fire alarm for deaf people. This device works by spraying vaporized wasabi into the air.

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Aug 23, 2019

TIL in 1977, North Korean agents abducted a 13 year old Japanese girl while she was walking to school in Niigata, Japan. The agents then took the girl over to North Korea, was forced to teach infiltrator agents Japanese culture. She is still missing to this day

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Aug 16, 2019

TIL: Japan has an S&M-themed gym where a professional dominatrix is your personal trainer.

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