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TIL Japanese eels, even the farm-raised ones, are spawn in the waters off the Northern Mariana Islands in the western Pacific Ocean

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OGJjL TIL about "Yasuke." Began researching Japanese history a few weeks ago and came across the first foreign born samurai
GYyQg TIL Redheads are more likely to have anxiety about, and avoid going to, the dentist because the same gene mutation that gives them red hair also makes them 20% more resistant to the effects local anaesthesia.
9Yd6r TIL President John Adams drank a hard cider every morning at breakfast to settle his stomach
YpwlG TIL that Al Stewart quit song writing in the 1970s & moved to London to play cover songs. His neighbor Paul Simon rejuvenated his passion & happenstance led him to write "Year of the Cat." He thought it had no commercial appeal so he made it the last track on a 1976 album. It still pays his rent.
6Eg4l TIL that Susan B. Anthony's father withdrew her from a school that would not allow her to learn long division as boys did.