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TIL There's a Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys

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Rjw9 TIL that all attempts to create a national identity card (a federal agency-issued mandatory form of identification) have been strongly opposed by both conservative and liberal politicians, who regard it as the mark of a totalitarian society.
LkMEd TIL Ninjas didn't actually wear black masks. The black mask associated with ninjas is actually an amalgamation of how a thief dressed in Japan. Ninjas also didn't use shuriken Throwing stars), they were used by Samurai swordsmen.
R7A8w TIL That the North Pole doesn't have any landmasses. It's only ice floating on water.
xdyo TIL a road called the King’s Highway was built from Boston MA to Charleston SC starting in 1650, on the order of King Charles II. Its northern section had been a Native American path for so long before that it was dug 2 feet into the ground, and it evolved into the first highways in North America.
R71p4 TIL Anne Frank wrote about the changes her body was going through in her diary, but her dad edited those parts out of the published manuscript.