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TIL Turkey is first at tea consumption per person while Ireland is second and UK is third.

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Al0n TIL I’ve never had real wasabi! It is so expensive that most “wasabi” outside of Japan is actually a mixture of horseradish, mustard and green food coloring.
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boQ4 TIL the Southernmost point in Sweden is occupied by a statue of a nude woman. That woman is Uma Thurman’s grandmother.
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