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TIL Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran

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nWErG TIL that when Miss Saigon premiered, the wedding song was all nonsense syllables, which were not replaced with real Vietnamese lyrics until twenty five years later
9YlmM TIL it's estimated that 16% of the world's gold and 22% of the world's silver is contained in Japan's electronics alone- so much that Japan is asking its citizens to donate old electronics to make the Olympic medals.
6EK0Z TIL in 2006 when the Japanese government announced that ear cleaning would no longer be considered a medical procedure, thus making medical licenses unnecessary for ear cleaners, a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors, which now number in the hundreds.
mmxo TIL Kevin Garnett has 18 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches made prior to each game, 9 with grape jelly 9 with strawberry jelly. He eats most of them.
XEynr TIL: After the Vatican, the city with the largest collection of Christian relics is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania