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TIL Fish Fingers Were Nearly Named “Battered Cod Pieces” by the Manufacturer that Popularized Them in the UK

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pYOyp TIL Japanese yen banknotes are produced from plants that grow in Nepal, making the Himalayan paper bush one of Nepal's important exports.
pYJG8 TIL of Mariam Nabatanzi Babirye, a woman who has birthed 51 children, with 44 still alive. As of April 2023, her eldest children is 31 years old, and the youngest is six years old. She is a single mother, who was abandoned by her husband in 2015.
D1Mrv TIL the UK has separate area codes just for cell phones.
xVkg7 TIL two brothers had a grocery chain together. In 1960, one Albrecht brother, didn't want to continue to sell cigarettes in their stores. The other did. They politely parted ways and continued independently. Both expanded to the USA, Karl with Aldi: against cigarettes and Theo opening Trader Joe's.
7rRL7 TIL the first time Dr. Henry Heimlich ever used the Heimlich maneuver was in 2016 when he was 96-years-old. An 87-year-old woman living in the retirement home where he resided began choking on a piece of meat and Dr. Heimlich saved her life.