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TIL I’ve never had real wasabi! It is so expensive that most “wasabi” outside of Japan is actually a mixture of horseradish, mustard and green food coloring.

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ADJGa TIL John Cleese has a rubbish tip named after him in New Zealand because he insulted the city of Palmerston North.
ZWXD TIL Fatso or “Keyboard Cat” died a long, long, long ass time ago; 1987 to be exact.
kOMJ1 TIL By launch day, Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins accumulated 400 hours in a command-module simulator, running emergency scenarios and rehearsing every step of the journey
Oomma TIL that since 1956 the US Air Force trains falcons. They have 8 main falcons, Ace, Apollo, Cairo, Karena, Nova, Oblio, Zeus, and Ziva
LQAw9 TIL that reporter Marie Torre was arrested for ten days after writing a defaming column about singer Judy Garland’s weight being a reason her television contract was terminated and refusing to tell Garland who provided that information