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Til 60% of all vocabulary in the modern Japanese dictionary are chinese loanwords

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X0JEE TIL flies can walk upside down, see in all directions, and taste with their feet. They also have a complex social life and communicate with each other through sounds and smells.
YppmA TIL Boston City Hall has been described as "one of the world's ugliest buildings".
jNrBM TIL While peanut allergies are a common high risk allergy in the United States, Central Europe deals with Celery allergies. Celery is such a danger to certain individuals that the EU had to enact labeling laws for products containing celery derived ingredients.
VvQQ TIL that Venice does not have a complete modern sewer system. In the historic core, much of the raw sewage goes straight into the canals.
4X56o TIL that Microsoft patented a chat-bot that would let you talk to deceased people. It would cull "social data" such as images, messages and voice data from the chosen individual and that data would be used to train a chat-bot to "converse and interact in the personality of the specific person"