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TIL there’s a museum in Amsterdam that houses deformed human embryos and other such abnormalities

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woZlo TIL about "Cool Japan", a Japanese government initiative since 2010 that aims to promote Japan's attractiveness abroad. It does this by focusing on the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanese people find "cool" such as anime, games, cuisine etc.
6ePJ TIL: The origin of saying “Bless you” after someone sneezes dates back to at least 77AD and may be due to (amongst other things) people originally believing that a person’s soul could be thrown from their body when they sneezed
ne1oo TIL that in 1959 the U.S. Navy submarine USS Barbero used a nuclear capable SSM-N-8 "Regulus" cruise missile to deliver mail
lokGV TIL Captain Morgan was a Welsh privateer who fought alongside the English against the Spanish in the Caribbean in the 1660s and 1670s. His first name was Henry and was knighted by King Charles II of England. He died in Jamaica in 1688, apparently very rich.
j7op TIL: That the Czechs who worked in the gun factories for the Germans, during wwii, would deliberately bend the sights out of shape, to make the rifles inaccurate. Skip to 05:30 minutes in.