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TIL that Kosovo's national anthem has no words

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A80n TIL that in Japan, fake food (called sampuru from the English “sample”) is a multi-billion yen industry. The replicas, which are made of plastic and typically cost 10 or 20 times the amount of the food they imitate, are mostly handmade by trained artists in an almost century-old tradition.
7bRX TIL That the ‘Warp Core’ shown in “Star Trek: Into Darkness” is not a set piece or prop, but actually the experimental nuclear fusion reactor at The National Ignition Facility.
p80V8 TIL DNA has a half-life of approximately 521 years, meaning that it would be broken down so much as to be useless after about 1 million years.
awJp0 TIL Japan has a National Wolf Association fighting to reintroduce wolves to the country to deal with a massive roaming deer population
YpZbd TIL that the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i was never annexed by the US by treaty; it was overthrown by the US military in 1893, and, after some shifting of power structure, has subsequently been illegally militarily occupied as a US territory, and eventually as a state after a 1959 referendum vote.