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TIL that there's a museum in Japan that's dedicated to rocks that look like human faces!

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MeGo7 TIL that the stickers on fruit, and even the glue holding the stickers to the fruit, are edible/FDA friendly
dnOj TIL a 10 year old British girl saved nearly a hundred foreign tourists at Maikhao Beach in Thailand by warning beachgoers minutes before the arrival of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami. She learned about tsunamis in school just two weeks prior to the event.
lonAr TIL The film 'The Conqueror', in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan, was filmed near to a nuclear test site. 91 of the film's 220 cast and crew members developed cancer later in life.
OPGL TIL of the ESPN show Playmakers. It was their first original drama series depicting the lives of an American football team. Despite high ratings, the show was cancelled after 11 episodes due to pressure from the NFL, who thought the show negatively portrayed pro football players
yVpNa TIL that one of the earliest typewriters, built by Pellegrino Turri in 1801, didn’t use an ink ribbon at all, he invented carbon paper to transfer the text, which later gave us “cc” (carbon copy) in emails.