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TIL 80% of Japan is considered uninhabitable

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XEW5R TIL Colorado is not a rectangle. Colorado is actually a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon, which means it has 697 sides.
b68P9 TIL the shrimp industry removes the eyes of female shrimp to increase reproduction, calling it "eyestalk ablation."
R7eA7 TIL that the Ramones first album took only a week to record (three days for the instruments and four days for vocals), and costs only $6,400 to produce.
6ER4m TIL that 2000 year old date seeds that were found in a historic mountainside fortress were planted in 2005 and sprouted a sapling
1aVM4 TIL that a rule was put in place in 1906 by Tiffany and Company that prevented anyone from buying an empty box in their signature blue color. Each and every Tiffany box had to contain a store purchase.