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TIL “Katamari Damacy” translates literally to “clump of souls”

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KOXmQ TIL Cork is made from the bark of a tree, Quercus suber, or the cork oak.These trees have thick, rugged bark from which cork is made. In cork cultivation you don’t have to chop down a tree to make corks, you can harvest the bark without harming the tree, and repeat it again in another 7-10 years.
1a7mW TIL of George Dantzig, who was late to class and solved two famously unsolved statistics problems because he thought they were homework.
l7PY5 TIL a South Park video game was completely finished for the Game Boy, but was personally cancelled by Trey Parker and Matt Stone who felt the adult content didn't suit the console. The developers then reskinned the game's artwork, and released it as a Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen game.
9YXRr TIL that in 1864 John A. Macdonald - the first Prime Minister of Canada famously vomited on stage during a debate with his Liberal party opponent, later remarking that it was not that he was drunk, but that the arguments of his honourable opponent made him sick
6vml TIL The longer the finger, the faster its nail will grow. For the same reason, fingernails grow about three times faster than toenails