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TIL Vanilla Beans Don’t All Taste Like Vanilla

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yrlv TIL the trial of Auschwitz staff acquitted only one man - SS member Hans Münch. Former prisoners testified on his behalf, as he refused to participate in inmate selection and appealed for better rations. Münch later spoke out against Holocaust denial.
OOO7 TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!
0dJyv TIL: The Akaname is a Japanese yokai (demon)... who licks the filth and scum present in bathtubs and bathrooms and translates to filth licker. It one story, it can transform into a beautiful woman who appears in a hot spring, offers to scrub a man's back, only to lick him down to the bones.
x6QgD TIL that when HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a U-boat torpedo in 1942, the two sections were recommissioned as HMS Pork and HMS Pine, and both saw active service for the rest of the war.
X0kVR TIL Long-haul flights has secret rest area above the main cabin for flight attendants so that they can rest. The rest area has seven or eight beds, and occasionally a separate bathroom as well. They can also enjoy in-flight entertainment.