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TIL: the internet has its own internal weather and you can observe it

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RN17 TIL Mitsubishi, which buys and sells 60% of the blue fin tuna market, is expanding it’s freezing capacity so it can sell the tuna for “astronomical sums” upon impending extinction.
Ode7 TIL adding the word ‘because’ to a sentence, followed by any reasoning, will make people tend to comply to what you want them to, no matter how lame the reason is.
XN4Q TIL that one of the Queen’s footmen was demoted after it was revealed that he purposely spiked her royal corgis’ food with alcohol, inviting other servants to watch them stagger about.
8ae1K TIL There's a restaurant in Hong Kong that makes noodles by bouncing on bamboo like a seesaw
N7vJ1 TIL "Marcha Real" the national anthem of Spain.It is one of only four national anthems(along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and San Marino) that has no official lyrics.Though the Marcha Real has no lyrics, words have been written and used for it in the past.