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TIL that one of the more popular traditions in Japan is to have a family dinner...eating KFC.

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awQb TIL that the supply of Plutonium-238, the fuel used to power Curiosity and other exploratory spacecraft, is nearly depleted and is no longer being produced by either the US or Russia.
yVVaw TIL of Lauren Stratford (Wilson) who wrote a book claiming that she was in a Satanic cult in which she sacrificed her own child. After magazine reporters exposed her as never having a child, she changed her name and claimed to be a holocaust survivor, and was exposed again by the same magazine.
rRE4y TIL that gender reveal parties only became popular after a 2008 blog post, and the blogger now regrets popularizing the idea
V5R8 TIL that in 2013, California shut down an elder care facility but didn’t relocate the residents before the owners stopped operations. The janitor and cook stayed behind, unpaid, to give around-the-clock care to 16 patients for two days.
1dMV TIL : There is a short German rhyme about procrastination that also rhymes when translated to English. “Morgen, morgen, nur nicht heute, sagen alle faulen leute.” in English means “Later, later, not today, all the lazy people say.”