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TIL most wasabi sold in the US is just horseradish with food coloring.

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XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.
0wv85 TIL: Spurgling is the practice of a woman (usually a girlfriend) stealing the sperm of a man to impregnate herself without his knowledge or consent.
56Bk TIL During WWII German General Hans Speidel ignored Hitler’s order to bombard Paris before being arrested for a plot to assassinate Hitler. 12 years later he was appointed the Supreme Commander of NATO and given headquarters at the Palace of Fontainebleau in Paris.
D5bD TIL that the Islamic men of the Tuareg tribe in North Africa are required to wear a veil and cover their faces, instead of the women.
Eg417 TIL there's a syndrome caused by brain injury which causes an obsession with gourmet foods. Symptoms include "Wanting to write, talk, eat, about refined foods".