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TIL Instant Ramens are safe to eat raw and are considered a savoury crunchy snack in many countries

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P1OKV TIL about ambigrams which are calligraphic writing of word so they can have similar or different meanings when viewed in different orientations.
nWyr9 TIL Investigations into many haunted houses have revealed elevated levels of carbon monoxide or other toxins, leading to hallucinations. This phenomenon is often observed in older houses due to the presence of aging and faulty appliances.
Zyr4 TIL serial killer Carl Panzram would rape his male victims not because he was homosexual but because he wanted to establish dominance over them.
KDLB TIL in 2006, the FBI planted a spy in a Southern California mosque and disguised him as a radical Muslim. The Muslims in the mosque ended up reporting him to the FBI for being a potentially dangerous extremist.
l7JrN TIL that in 2004 Alicia Esteve Head, under the alias Tania Head, pretended to be a 9/11 survivor, created an online support group and ultimately was named President of the World Trade Center Survivors' Network before being discovered as a fraud in 2007 by The New York Times.