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TIL Hideki Tojo’s dentures had "Remember Pearl Harbor" engraved into them in morse code

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gMvWy TIL Disney's Epcot Italy imports water from Pennsylvania to use in their pizza because PA water shares much of the same qualities found in Naples and it keeps it as authentic as possible
OG7k4 TIL of the Koryo burger, a well known item on the inflight catering of Air Koryo, a north Korean airline. The "mystery meat" burger is served with cheese, cabbage and a brown sauce, cold to passengers. Vegetarians are offered the burger bun with extra tomato slices.
0db51 TIL that in 1857, New York City installed eleven 47-foot cast-iron fire lookout towers across the city. These towers were manned by volunteers as an early detection system to help protect a city largely built of wood. Today, only one remains, located in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem.
9rLr TIL that “second”, which can refer to the number two item in a sequence, is used as a time unit because it is the “second” division of an hour by sixty.
E18do TIL according to data from the 2017 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Americans 55 years and older are now more likely to be regular cannabis consumers than middle- and high school-aged teenagers.