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TIL wasabi is typically a mix of European horseradish, mustard, and food coloring as authentic wasabi loses flavor in 15 minutes

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LDdV TIL in 2005 Scientists found an individual nerve cell that fired only when subjects were shown pictures of Jennifer Aniston
0d0Gj TIL that knocking on wood was a thing because people believed that spirits lived in trees and knocking would prevent them from bad luck. (scroll a bit for the right part.)
P1xdw TIL there are at least 20 quadrillion ants on earth - roughly 2.5 million per person 🤯
69Rlm TIL that "Firehawks" are birds that can intentionally start bushfires to aid their hunting.
4kBpo TIL Michael Keaton's breakthrough 1982 movie Night Shift was conceived after producers found a New York Times news story about a prostitution ring run from a city morgue