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TIL some cultures eat milt, the seminal fluid of fish.

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YpKjW TIL Võ Nguyên Giáp, a general in the Vietnam People's Army, had no direct military training & was a history teacher at a French-speaking academy. He would later earn the moniker "Red Napoleon" by some Western sources. He has been called one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century
0w6lA TIL, despite posing as a neutral country, Switzerland helped US and German intelligence services in gathering classified communications by selling rigged encoding devices to more than 120 governments.
LQb9Q TIL that Kazuyoshi Miura was a Japanese businessman who was accused of being involved in the killing of his wife, Kazumi Miura. The prolonged legal battle, lasting decades, ended when he presumably committed suicide in October 2008.
loy77 TIL Auto-Tune, introduced in 1997, which uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances was named one of the 50 worst inventions by Time magazine.
1o9P TIL that NY’s tap water has tiny crustaceans in it to combat mosquito larvae in the water supply. As such, water in NY is not Kosher.