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TIL Gimp, the lanyard crafting material, was originally called “Scoubidou” and the fad started in France

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b6Jr0 TIL about Freeports. Tax Free storage units the wealthy use to store Art, wine, and artifacts investments. The Geneva freeport holds more art then the MOMA in pieces and value.
KYyQ9 TIL North Korea has a higher obesity rate than South Korea
dDVQE TIL A Canadian man ordered Brylcreem, a hair styling product from a Canadian e-commerce site in 2012 and received the package in 2020
XQbX TIL that due to the process of blending together beef from multiple delivery batches, a McDonald’s burger patty “can be made up of the meat from more than 100 cattle”
6EYOW TIL About the Tanuki, a fox-like animal in traditional Japanese folklore with giant magical testicles