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TIL: Some Japanese families without a son will adopt a Mukoyōshi or adopted son-in-law. They marry a daughter, run the family business, and take their wives surname. Nintendo, Kikkoman, and Toyota, are owned by families that have adopted this practice.

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p8mdp TIL there are about 2,200 miles of navigable canals in the United Kingdom requiring many tiny locks to be manually operated and many of them no wider than 7 feet (2.1m). Started for use as commercial transport in the early 19th century it has now turned into a leisure highway of "narrowboats."
pYEXN TIL that there was a Portuguese man raised in South Africa called Fernando Pessoa who had around 70 different personalities.
dD54Q TIL that there are large (>200 m length) tanker ships that are built and operated solely to transport orange juice.
8ayob TIL about body snatchers aka "resurrection men", paid men that were ought to do grave-robbing. These men provided a number of schools with cadavers, and members of the schools would use influence to keep these men out of jail. People (alive) used Railings to protect graves from body snatchers.
D10Or TIL that Cummingtonite, discovered in Cummington, MA, is an intermediate material with the chemical composition (Mg, Fe2+)2(Mg, ​Fe2+)5Si8O22(OH)2 found commonly in metamorphosed magnesium-rich rocks.