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TIL Valentine’s Day in South Korea is a little different. Only women give gifts, not men. Women give men chocolates on Valentine's Day as a sign of love and affection.

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9wWKQ TIL Walt Disney originally planned to have The Wizard of Oz be the company’s second animated feature film after Snow White but the film rights were scooped up by MGM
neR4o TIL In 2014, the UK based EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) named Rakuten as “the world’s biggest online retailer of whale meat and elephant ivory, calling on the company to stop selling the items.”
rNKkW TIL Corinthian Leather is just a marketing term invented by a Chrysler PR firm in the 70s
rP6y TIL that when Charles II died the autopsy stated that his body “did not contain a single drop of blood; his heart was the size of a peppercorn; his lungs corroded; his intestines rotten and gangrenous; he had a single testicle, black as coal, and his head was full of water.”
6EADJ TIL that the bodies on display in "Bodies: The Exhibition" were likely not donated voluntarily. They are believed to be the remains of executed prisoners.