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TIL that almost all wasabi sold in the US is just mustard and horseradish.

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9beB TIL that Pop Rocks candy is made by exposing melted candy syrup to ~600psi of CO2, then allowing it to cool, thereby trapping highly pressurized micro-bubbles of gas in the candy.
wRE1 TIL that when rabbits with the dwarf gene breed, it occasionally results in a ‘peanut’, a bunny with two dwarf genes. Sadly, a peanut bunny will never grow, and will always die less than two weeks after birth, usually in under 3 days.
wLyoE TIL Cloacina was the Roman goddess of sewers a poem to her is attributed to Lord Byron, "O Cloacina, Goddess of this place, Look on thy suppliants with a smiling face. Soft, yet cohesive let their offerings flow, Not rashly swift nor insolently slow."
8aO14 TIL that in the 1840s, San Francisco a pair of stray dogs known as Bummer and Lazarus were such good rat catchers that they became famous in the city. Once, when a new dog catcher caught Lazarus, an angry mob formed. The city not only released him, but exempt both dogs from anti-stray laws.
WRyB TIL The world’s largest moving object, the Bagger 288 Superexcavator, leaves virtually no tracks, even over grass. The sheer surface area of the tracks makes its ground pressure less than a barefoot person.