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TIL that the volleyball move of setting and spiking emerged in the Philippines and was called ‘bomba’ or ‘Filipino bomb’

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7K4r TIL vanilla beans are the 2nd most expensive spice in the world due to a current, global vanilla bean crisis caused, in part, by a 2017 hurricane in Madagascar.
rRMd TIL Iceland is a Non-African state member of the African Union
E161V TIL the carmaker Jaguar used to be called "SS Cars." They changed their name after World War II.
OGelR TIL of Edward Barton-Wright, one of the first European practitioners of Japanese martial arts. He worked as an Antimony smelter in Japan, where he learned 2 styles of jujitsu. Upon returning to England he opened a school that taught a style named Bartitsu which combined jujitsu, boxing and savate.
bmjj TIL that until 1987, heart surgery (and other surgeries) could be performed on babies with no anaesthesia, as it was commonly thought that babies could not feel pain