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TIL A Japanese Interpreter for Jimmy Carter Once Said “President Carter told a funny story. Everyone must laugh.”

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MajW TIL There is a Japanese word,ごっつん盗, that translates to, “To steal a car by gently rear-ending it and having a friend jump into the car and drive off after the driver gets out of their car to yell or bitch at you.
wLod7 TIL that the 7-11 franchise in Japan was eventually able to buy out the entire brand due to its huge success in the country.
9QPr TIL smarties were originally not allowed to be white for fear that children would associate medicinal tablets with smarties.
LQjE9 TIL of Užupis, a self-proclaimed independent nation that declared its independence on April Fool's. Included in the Constitution are "everyone has the right to love a cat" and "a dog has the right to be a dog."
7r86L TIL that after Elizabeth Short, AKA "The Black Dahlia" was found murdered and mutilated in 1947 in Los Angeles, the Examiner newspaper contacted Short's mother and told her Elizabeth had won a beauty contest in order to pry as much personal information from her as possible.