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TIL that okra features heavily in Caribbean, Indian and Nigerian cooking. It is a much more widespread vegetable than I had first assumed

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RAMQ TIL that a picture of a severed Japanese head on a tank turret published by Life magazine on February 1, 1943, generated less protest letters than an image of a mistreated cat in the same issue.
Z87oB TIL cruise ships emissions can equal the equivalent of one million cars per day and air quality on deck can be worse than in the world’s most polluted cities.
VMVMG TIL Hitler loved Irish music and invited an Irish musician to play for him in Berlin in 1936. However there was no room for the musician to sit, so Hitler ordered an S.S member on his hands and knees to act as a chair so the Irishman could perform his music.
16v1X TIL that Jake from the TV sitcom Becker (the funny blind guy) is also a singer in the ska band Hepcat- Alex Désert
LZXZ TIL of Otokichi, a Japanese castaway who made landfall in America after surviving for over a year at sea. He was enslaved by the Makah Native American tribe, but eventually found his way to London and joined the British fleet, where he helped negotiate the Anglo-Japanese friendship treaty.