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TIL Norway introduced sushi salmon to Japan in the 1980s

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jjWN TIL Shoichi Yokoi was among the last three Japanese holdouts to be found after the end of WW2 in 1945, discovered in the jungles of Guam in January 1972, almost 28 years after US forces had regained control of the island in 1944.
d8Ko8 TIL e.g doesn't stand for "example given", it stands for "exempli gratia" (for example) and i.e stands for "id est" (in other words), and they're not interchangeable.
jN8yn TIL King George V was euthanized/killed when injected with fatal doses of morphine and cocaine in his deathbed, so that the announcement was ''in the morning papers rather than the less appropriate evening journals.''
YVLd TIL that the author of the first computer worm ever created was a student and it infected 6000 computers which was 10% of all computers connected to internet.
5YnG8 TIL that in 1666 the Dutch painter Willem van de Velde, when tasked with portraying a sea battle, manned a ship himself to make live drawings of the ongoing Four Days Battle from as close as possible.