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TIL 80% of Japan is considered uninhabitable

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wPa8 TIL A goat in Utah was implanted with spider genes as an embryo to produce spider silk proteins in her milk which is used to make “bio-steel”, a material which is stronger than Kevlar.
jKxM TIL the national speed limit was set at 55mph not for safety reasons, but to conserve fuel
vpmK TIL the Green Bay Packers are named after the Indian Packing Company, who paid for their first uniforms on the condition the team be named after them.
AN7w7 TIL that an Australian golf course had a water hazard with sharks.
vP4Jr TIL A monument in Kyoto contains severed noses from 38000 Koreans and 30000 Chinese from a Japanese invasion in the 1590s. No Japanese textbook mentioned it until the 80s, after a publisher resisted pressure from the ministry of education to use a softer tone and praise the invasion leader Hideyoshi