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TIL in 1971 Kellogg’s made a pizza Pop Tart, called Presto Pizza.

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1BoP TIL a young Japanese boy named Yuuki saved many lives in his village warning people of an incoming tsunami. When they didn’t listen to him, he set fire to stacks of rice in order to panic them and get them up the mountain.
nerZ9 TIL about Utsuro-Buno, a Japanese legend about an unknown object washing ashore in Hitachi in1803. Inside there was a young woman who spoke an unknown language and who was carrying a small box which she didn't let anyone touch.
9YxJm TIL of a 7 year old feral child found in Russia last 2008 who was called The Bird Boy because he lived with birds in a virtual aviary and could not speak, only chirp because his mother never talked to him and he would flap his arms when he was approached by people just like a bird.
Wk1gd TIL S is an actual grade in japan above A and isn't just a video game grade
JYLWk TIL that males and females finish urination differently. Specifically, males contract a muscle called the bulbospongiosus several times to empty the urethra, whereas the female urethra is emptied by gravity, and females do not use this muscle to 'squeeze' out the urine like males do.