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TIL to become a certified master trainer (Takumi master) for the Lexus production facility in Japan, you need 60,000 hours of training. You must also have the ability to fold an origami cat with your non-dominate hand in 90 seconds.

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M7XE8 TIL the director Tony Kaye of American History X was regarded as unemployable by Hollywood because the studio wanted Edward Norton's cut which had an additional 18 minutes of footage. Kaye took out $100k in ads condemning Norton and studio and tried changing his name in the credits to Humpty Dumpty
d8vZ7 A wheel of parmesan cheese can cost over $1,000. A single wheel takes at least one year to age, 131 gallons of milk to make, and it can only be made in a restricted area in northern Italy, in the region of Emilia Romagna.
E1j9X TIL about Emma Morano. She was born November 29, 1899, and died on April 15, 2017. She was the last living person to be born in the 1800s.
Lkn89 TIL that a herd of wandering wild elephants have become celebrities in China as they make a 15 month, 500 km odyssey from their forest reserve. Rather than capture them, the Chinese support their migration via drone monitoring and corn and pineapple food deliveries
nWgrd TIL United States, under President Eisenhower, initiated Iran's nuclear program through the Atoms for Peace program. In 1957, the U.S. provided Iran with its first nuclear reactor and nuclear fuel. Later, after 1967, the U.S. also supplied Iran with weapons-grade enriched uranium.