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TIL: Deep-fried pizza is a normal snack in Scotland, it is called Pizza crunch.

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Bgpyb TIL "Waltzing Matilda" is Australian slang for traveling on foot with a bundle of belongings. In the 1895 song an itinerant narrator takes a stray sheep for dinner, and after a pursuit by lawmen he drowns in a watering hole and becomes a ghost.
OoBaa TIL Oval car stickers were originally a requirement for European vehicles to indicate their country of origin. Travelers from abroad would bring the stickers home to show off their destinations. They have since become a popular style of bumper sticker for many destinations outside of Europe as well.
X8vk TIL there are 5 enormous cylindrical shafts underneath of Tokyo, Japan which fill with water in case of a flood so it does not to destroy the city.
p81jA TIL the four-leaf clover symbol, usually associated with shamrocks and Irish culture, is actually depicting the common wood sorrel which isn't a species of clover at all!
65PZ TIL Navy SEALs brains are trained to alter the way the amygdala processes fear.