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TIL: Guy Fieri, before Food Network fame, used to be the spokesman for Flowmaster

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x66y5 TIL that there is a difference between a Donkey and a Mule. Mules are the result of breeding a female horse (Mare) and male donkey (Jack)
ywmp TIL, there’s a version of “The Tortoise and the Hare” where everyone dies in a forest fire because the tortoise, having won the race and therefore seen as the fastest, is given the job of warning everyone.
5Volk TIL that Japan has a town named "Usa" which many believed was deliberately named to promote goods as "Made in USA"
16k1W TIL that Kuboyama Aikichi, a Japanese fisherman, was the first known victim of hydrogen bomb radiation exposure. He was aboard the "Lucky Dragon No. 5" (Daigo Fukuryu Maru), a fishing boat caught in radioactive fallout from the 1954 U.S. Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test near Bikini Atoll.
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