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TIL that wasabi is sometimes referred to as “Japanese horseradish”. In Japan, horseradish is referred to as “western wasabi”.

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7rM1r TIL that chariot racer Gaius Appuleius Diocles is the highest paid athlete of all-time with an amassed fortune of $15 billion.
D11Ye TIL there is no butter (or dairy) in apple butter
Wk189 TIL 25 years after its release, Mariah Carey still earns around $3,300,000 a year in royalties alone for her song "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
J85Q TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods, and stressed the importance of psychological over physical torture. The threat of inflicting pain triggered fears more damaging than the pain itself, because people often underestimated their capacity to withstand pain.
O6D6 TIL in 1992, a man fell to his death at the Grand Canyon while failing to pretend to fall off the railing.