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TIL it is against the law to be obese in Japan
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TIL that Sir Isaac Newton invented calculus in approximately the same amount of time the average student learns it in University.
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TIL Marilyn Monroe got chin surgery because she overheard someone call her “a chinless wonder” at a party, behind her back.
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TIL about Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd. (株式会社金剛組), a family-owned Japanese construction company which has been in business since 578 AD.
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TIL that Shasta Beverages, the company best known for all the third-tier sodas you can find at the dollar store, invented the soda can
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TIL of the Gospel of Wealth - a manifesto written by Andrew Carnegie that urged the wealthy to avoid extravagance, reinvested into the community and for the state to impose progressive taxes on estates