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TIL There is a World Instant Noodle Association who's main Motto is "So that people can enjoy eating delicious instant noodles with peace of mind."

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gMGOW TIL Qatar has more Indians living there (650,000) than actual native Qatari citizens (300,000)
R7508 TIL the misplaced apostrophe in Lands' End (as opposed to Land's End) resulted from a typo the fledgling clothing company couldn't afford to fix. It's still misspelled that way today.
ovdo TIL the British Armed Forces still have 21500 troops stationed in Germany - due to the establishment of the British Army of the Rhine after WWII. Only in 2020 will these troops be withdrawn.
e0j0g TIL William Friedkin (Exorcist, French Connection) came upon the idea for the 'wrong-way chase scene' in To Live and Die in LA when he fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in the wrong lane with traffic heading straight for him. He spent the next 20 years wondering how he would use it in a film.
l7kgA TIL that as a child, Charles Dickens worked 10-hour days in a London boot-blacking factory - a trauma he later called the deepest shame of his life, but one that forged his strict 9–2, five-hour writing discipline and his life-long refusal to let his own children work.