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dDvwZ TIL Japan has only eaten raw salmon since the 90s due to pacific salmon being prone to parasites, it took Norway having an excess of the Atlantic variety for raw salmon to become popular there and considered safe for consumption.
x0A5 TIL that President Nixon, a Republican, originally signed the bill that provides Planned Parenthood with federal funding into law. He saw it as a way to keep people off of welfare.
pkJA TIL in 1986 a truck carrying sulfuric acid crashed in Spain - the driver and his wife were found dead, but there was no sign of their son, apart from his shoes. Interpol has called it the ‘strangest missing person case in Europe’
ZpABD TIL in 2008, a single basketball shot may have saved hundreds of lives. Alabama player Mykal Riley made a 3-point-shot that pushed the game into overtime minutes before an EF-2 Tornado passed by. If he had missed that shot, hundreds of fans could have been in the parking lot when the tornado hit.
W74QB TIL that within the Indo-European language family, Hindi and Persian are more closely related to English than Greek and Albanian are.