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[TIL] some people are born with extra "thorn" bones in the side of their feet

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vPpv7 TIL that in Japan, only 100% fruit juice can display a realistic cut fruit on the label, 95% may display a whole but unsliced fruit. 5% or less, it is forbidden to display a realistic fruit on the label
XEYVR TIL The Reischstag in Germany contains Soviet graffiti from WW2, some of it quite vulgar.
J11Nv TIL that two other people were planned to be assassinated the night Abraham Lincoln was. One of them was Lincoln's Vice President Andrew Johnson. The man assigned to kill him instead got drunk instead and couldn't work up the nerve to do it.
wLPoM TIL that Sperm Whales’ sounds are so loud (under water) they can burst your ear drums or even “vibrate” you to death.
7LGL TIL that the term “cold war” first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell called “You and the Atomic Bomb.”