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TIL The fictional city, Ankh-Morpork, from the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, is twinned with Wincanton, in Somerset, UK, and the town is the first to name streets after their fictional equivalents.

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a8vM0 TIL a Victorian undertaker inadvertently launched the first Low Carb diet craze
eLr5 TIL wild salmon flesh is red because of pigments in the krill they eat. It is the same pigment that turns lobsters and flamingos red/pink. If this is not supplemented in farmed salmon, their flesh will be the normal grey of other fish. This is why farmed salmon says, “color added”.
Z55G TIL in 1989 the EPA attempted to ban the use of asbestos in building materials. This ban was overturned after asbestos industry supporters sued the EPA and won. The U.S. remains one of the few developed countries to allow any industrial use of asbestos.
6Eg8l TIL Richard Feynman, a physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, was hounded by the FBI until he sent them a memo to leave him alone as he’d helped build the atomic bomb. When J. Edgar Hoover found out about it, he also sent out a memo telling them not to pursue Feynman unless told otherwise.
woA8 Til the name “Jesus” is the result of several incorrect translations of “Yeshua”.