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TIL Japan has one vending machine for every 30 people

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E1KNP TIL the skull on the moth covering Jodie Foster’s mouth on the poster for Silence Of The Lambs is actually 7 female bodies as depicted by Salvador Dali and represent the movies victims
mxYbR TIL in 1925, two medical students received a cadaver and a challenge. In response, they spent 1,500 hours dissecting a human nervous system -- beginning at the base of the brain and working downward -- leaving the system intact in one continuous piece.
VJ8m TIL Neapolitan Ice cream was originally made to resemble the Italian Flag (green (pistachio or almond), white (vanilla), and red (cherry))
4XnMN TIL Captain Robert Knox (1641 – 1720) of British East India Company was imprisoned for 20 years in the south asian island of Ceylon. Upon his escape he bought back a "strange intoxicating herb" unheard of in Europe. The herb is known today as Cannabis Indica.
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