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TIL: Mitsubishi motors was founded by a samurai.

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BVOx TIL that frogs don’t have the ability to swallow, so to get food down their throat, they do ‘the blink’: whereby their eyes sink back in their head and push the food down.
x6oxo TIL Japan is considered a "super-aged" nation since more than 20% of the population is over 65
GYla7 TIL About the Permian extol event that killed off 95% of all life on earth which eventually lead to the rise of the dinosaurs.
b6g77 TIL that in the early 20th Century, Chicken was considered a spring delicacy in the USA, raised seasonally by Farm Wives. Then during WWII, red meat was heavily rationed and Chicken Farming became industrialized. In 1930, average Americans ate 10 lbs of Chicken annually. Now we eat 64 lbs annually.
MeeOb TIL if you have one Irish grandparent, you are eligible for Irish citizenship (w/ fee). You don’t need to have even been to Ireland or know the first thing about the country to apply. For non-Europeans, this means you get a passport that allows you to work and live anywhere in the EU.