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TIL the wasabi you eat with your sushi rarely contains any actual wasabi. True wasabi is expensive to cultivate as it only grows in and around riverbeds in Japan, so you are likely eating a hydrated mixture horseradish, mustard, starch and green food coloring.
m1lRM
TIL 99 percent of the population in the United States and Europe are unable to see the Milky Way at night due to artificial light
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TIL in Arizona you can legally marry your first cousin if both of you are 65 or over, and one of you can't reproduce
X064k
TIL that when Sebastian Shaw arrived at the set of Return of the Jedi, he ran into his friend Ian McDiarmid (Palpatine). When McDiarmid asked Shaw what he was doing there, Shaw responded, "I don't know, dear boy, I think it's something to do with science-fiction." Shaw was the face of Darth Vader.
01y5
TIL while vacationing on a beach in Thailand, a 10 year old girl recognized the signs of a tsunami after learning about them in geology class two weeks prior. Hundreds of beach-goers were evacuated minutes before the devastating tsunami from the 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake arrived.