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TIL of ISO 3103, the international standard for brewing a cup of tea

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d8BP7 TIL that an ex-girlfriend of J. D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye, auctioned off intimate letters Salinger sent her during their relationship. One man, Peter Norton, bought all of the letters for a considerable sum and promptly returned them to Salinger.
xy01 TIL that when the Emperor told his people that Japan was surrendering in WWII, almost no one understood his Classical Japanese dialect!
x6PxB TIL that 569 million Slim Jim meat sticks are produced annually. The Slim Jim was invented in 1929 in Philadelphia and gained popularity in 1993, when Slim Jim began using Macho Man" Randy Savage in commercials, with the slogan, "snap into a Slim Jim".
9EnG TIL Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell.”
7rnLx TIL that many languages traditionally don't distinguish between green and blue, instead considering them shades of one color.