Post * PYVeE — Curious Curator

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TIL the Japanese have an obsession with American cars

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WOAX TIL that two identical twins were adopted by separate families, but both were called Jim, married women named Linda, got divorced and married women named Betty, both named their dogs Toy, and much more.

kO65d TIL in the United States, 90 percent of the population resides within 10 miles of a Walmart store

ne0EG [TIL] that officially, the United States doesn't use a "Penny". Rather, the coin is actually called a "One Cent Piece", or just a "Cent".

VMJ8D TIL: Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish friar sent to Auschwitz for hiding jews; offered his life and volunteered to die in the place of another camp inmate who was about to executed, who cried that he had a ‘wife’ and a ‘child’. Maximilian on the other hand, had no family. In 1982 he was made into a Saint.

xVy95 TIL that John Harvey Kellogg, the creator of Kellogg's cereal, thought that foods high in flavour caused sexual activity in children so he created flavourless, grain-based cereals to discourage them.