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TIL The first native English speaker to teach English in Japan was named Ranald MacDonald

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6XjJ TIL there is a disorder that is thought to be purely psychological called Pseudocyesis, where a woman shows all the symptoms of being pregnant except for the presence of a fetus. Their belly grows at the right rate and they can even go into false labour
4YKw TIL Inkjet printers contain a “Waste Ink Reservoir” that wastes on average 25% of all your ink.
E16jP TIL that the human body, if eaten, would be 81,500 calories. Based on the recommend daily intake of 2,500 calories, one average human body would feed one person for about one month.
grnlX TIL about the accidental invention of the potato chip
7rvZ TIL one of the most dangerous books ever made, “Shadows From the Walls of Death,” simply contains samples of arsenic-infused wallpapers.