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TIL Norway actually introduced Salmon Sushi to Japan

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4Xybo TIL that Rip Torn's father Elmore "Tiger" Torn was an agricultural who worked to promote the consumption of black-eyes peas, particularly as a custom of New Year's Day.
e0a1J TIL that the Antikythera Mechanism is the world's first (analog) computer, calculating the positions of stars and planets accurate to 1 degree in 500 years, and was made 1500 years before Keppler was even born.
Eggyp TIL that a B29 bomber crashed in Lake Mead (Arizona/Nevada) in 1948 and it can be today reached by diving tours
aAbo TIL The only two incidents in history where a plane had crashed on land and neither the cockpit voice nor flight data recorders were found, happened on 9/11.
gK1y TIL Saudi Arabia once surgically paralyzed someone as punishment for a crime