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TIL salmon sushi isn’t originally Japanese; it was introduced to the country through a desperate marketing effort by the Norwegian fishing industry, which had too much salmon

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X0vVr TIL Canada's original gothic Parliament Building, including the Victoria Tower, was destroyed by fire in 1916. Only the Library survived intact, by an employee who closed the iron doors connecting the Library to the rest of the building
P14Ge TIL the largest Colombian "narco sub" to be decommissioned since records began in 1993 was seized in the Pacific Ocean in 2023 (3 tons of cocaine were on board). The vessel was about 100 ft long & 10 ft wide. Up to that point, the Colombian navy had seized a total of 228 drug-laden semi-submersibles
l7LVN TIL in Finland, molybdomancy, or predicting future through the shape of molten tin, is a tradition for New Year's Eve
LQww0 TIL The U.S. Passed Student Loan Forgiveness
Pp5w TIL in Iran it is forbidden for women to ride traditional bicycles in the belief that it is a sexual stimulant and “causes corruption". Women riders are attacked by vigilantes. The Iranian version of the Islamic bicycle has a “boxy contraption that hides a woman’s lower body.”