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TIL that instant noodles were invented in response to the mass starvation in Japan following WW2

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do1B TIL: In Norway Easter is known for “Påskekrim” (Easter Crime), when just about everyone in Norway reads crime novels, television and radio stations run crime serials, and newspapers publish special crime related literary supplements.
bwd4 TIL that there is a three-digit-code on every egg carton that indicates the date of packaging, starting with January 1 as 001 and ending with December 31 as 365
4XAew TIL in 2003 the smoke from large bushfires in Canberra, Australia formed a Cumulonimbus Flammagenitus. Essentially the fire created its own supercell storm, complete with lighting and forming an F3-rated fire tornado. The tornado and associated fire killed 4 people and injured 492 others.
0wDmp TIL Industrial designer Sara Little Turnbull was hired in 1958 by 3M to design a new bra cup. She ended up designing the N95 respirator.
4kMeo TIL that in 1992 Detroit News compared a theoretical performance of Godzilla unleashed upon 1972 Detroit in Sim City to the outcome of two decades of rule by mayor Coleman Young and came to a conclusion that Detroit would be better off with the monster