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TIL Raw Oysters Are Still Alive When You Eat Them

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DWye TIL that, due to the extreme amount of red tape involved in exporting animals, Game of Thrones moves production to the home country of the dogs who portray the Starks’ direwolves to film their scenes, rather than attempt transporting them to Ireland.
n6rb TIL the oldest tree ever to be discovered(5,000 years old) was killed by a man who was trying to discover it’s age.
Bjbr TIL The Japanese Samurai Hasekura Tsunenaga in the years 1613 through 1620 sailed to Rome via Mexico, where he met the Pope and was made a Roman citizen. It was the last official Japanese visit to Europe until 1862.
0yGL TIL that in 1964 while federal authorities were searching for 3 civil rights workers presumed murdered by the KKK in Mississippi their search yielded the remains of another 8 blacks that had been murdered by the KKK including a 14 year old boy.
6EK5m TIL that there is a group of Germans who deny the existence of Germany as a nation and have their own King who use to be a Karate instructor