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TIL that monkeys in Japan learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water to clean them. They later switched to washing sweet potatoes in salt water. It is theorized that this is because they like the salty taste more than plain potatoes.

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9Yx8Q TIL A button-up shirt refers to any shirt that buttons up the front. A button-down shirt refers to the collar of a button-up shirt. If the collar can be fastened to the shirt via buttons, then it’s a button-down shirt.
Y7nyr TIL that Wan Hu, a 16th-century Chinese official, is said to have attempted to launch himself into outer space in a chair to which 47 rockets were attached. The rockets exploded, and it is said that neither he nor the chair were ever seen again.
XEo4j TIL Gary Sinise, the actor behind disabled veteran Lt. Dan in Forrest Gump, has a foundation that builds houses and vehicles designed for disabled veteran autonomy.
ANxG7 TIL that when the FIFA World Cup trophy was stolen in 1966, it was found by a dog named Pickles.
0wjjR TIL that guitarist Eddie Van Halen was half Indonesian, and that his family immigrated to the United States because of how badly his mixed-race parents were treated in the Netherlands.