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TIL These Japanese beef croquettes are so popular there's a 30-year waitlist | CNN

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BrRWr TIL timeless physics is the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion. Arguably we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it.
mL7P TIL that the medieval French Chapelle de Bethléem has been restored with grotesques referencing popular culture, including Gremlins and Alien.
Q0E9 TIL that over 30% of AOL’s total revenue still comes from dial-up subscribers
gMoAW TIL the human womb is the oxygen equivalent of the top of Mt Everest, designed to keep the fetus asleep 95% of the time
VBpm TIL that US soldiers in WWII were promised a quart of icecream if they refrained from killing Japanese POWs.