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TIL cellphones in Japan can’t turn off the shutter noise in order to protect the privacy of people.

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neDNo TIL Alice Coachmen was the first black woman to win an Olympic Gold Medal at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games in the high jump competition. She was also the first African-American woman selected to the US Olympic Team.
9YlYB TIL that some poison dart frogs secrete a painkiller called epibatidine. Epibatidine is 200x more potent than morphine and is nonaddictive, but has a therapeutic dose that is dangerously close to its lethal dose
4Xm4N TIL Several famous actors were decorated during WWII. Henry Fonda won a Bronze Star in the Pacific, Walter Matthau was awarded six battle stars while serving on a B-17. Christopher Lee was a pilot in the Royal Air Force and also won a number of awards.
rl7W TIL In Mongolia, if your foot taps against someone else’s, it is respectful to immediately shake hands with them.
jNv5E TIL Mason bees can pollinate anywhere from 20-100k blossoms per day while honeybees pollinate only 50-1000 blossoms per day, making the native North American mason bee a far more efficient pollinator than the European honey bee.