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TIL Japanese schools make children square dance to the tune of “Turkey in the Straw,” and call it an “Oklahoma Mixer”

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LkXEd TIL: When scientists found harpoon tips from the 19th century in bowhead whales, they got curious about how old they were and discovered they are one of the oldest vertebrates in the world, living to be over 200 years old.
GeN4 TIL that Poet Stanislaw Jerzy Lec survived a German concentration camp by killing his guard with a shovel that was given to him to dig his own grave – and then escaping in the guards uniform.
VMPB8 TIL that from 1909-38 Good Housekeeping Magazine’s Seal of Approval was the only U.S. grading system for food, drugs, and cosmetics. The magazine fought a federal grading system. Regulators then found the Seal to be misleading and deceptive, forcing reforms.
woKD8 TIL the ancient Romans made a poison artificial sweetener out of lead
LR1Q TIL That a woman in Germany could detect details from a mile away that most people can only see at 20 ft. She used her superpower to become…. a dentist.