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TIL that Thailand's national dish "Pad Thai" is actually a modern creation invented to combat famine and create nationalism in the 1930s because it created double the volume of food as from the same amount of rice grains as boiled rice.

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b9ZZQ TIL a New Zealand court ordered the National Party to pay NZ$600K to Eminem's publishers for using a carbon-copied version of "Lose Yourself" in a 2014 election advertisement. Eminem did not initiate the lawsuit and later donated his monetary settlement to hurricane relief.
knYd TIL that a building called Blok P once housed 1% of Greenland’s population. It was advertised to tourists as “so depressing that it’s almost an attraction in itself.”
mx1Kx TIL The bony-eared assfish has the smallest known brain-to-body mass ratio of all vertebrates
E1Ado TIL Ford Motor Company paid for an uncensored, commercial free airing of Schindler’s List in Primetime on NBC in 1997. It included two short intermissions with countdown clocks.
mKGv TIL There is an electric eel in a tennessee aquarium and the aquarium is hooked up to a computer that sends out a tweet from the electric eels twitter account whenever it discharges a high enough amount of electricity.