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TIL for political reasons, Microsoft does not include country flag emojis in Windows

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R74L4 TIL that the jacuzzi was invented by Candido Jacuzzi to provide pain relief for his 15-month-old son, Kenny Jacuzzi, who was born with rheumatoid arthritis.
5Ve4P TIL that Elton John considers Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" to be one of the best songs ever written.
dDaZ8 TIL: There is 12,000 year old rock art in the middle of the Sahara Desert, created by humans when the Sahara was still green and full of life. Some historians believe the human experience of watching the Sahara dry up still exists today as the story of the Garden of Eden
0Qpv TIL of Butler’s café , a butler themed cafe in Tokyo. According to the owner, Japanese women “want a cafe where the waiters [are] male, good-looking, will treat them nice, but most importantly [are] Western.” Butler’s café “is the sole cafe hiring only foreign men as staff.”
kJZpd TIL that the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of Earth’s oceans, descends nearly 11 kilometers (about 36,000 feet) into complete darkness. Down there, temperatures are near freezing, and the pressure is over 1,000 times greater than at sea level enough to crush most human-made submarines.