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TIL That Americans Were Eating Sushi in 1905, and that there were Japanese restaurants in most American cities.

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JY4R1 TIL NBC would occasionally add a fourth note to its chimes to notify reporters to immediately return to the office to prepare historic news reports. The fourth chime was most famously used during the nation's D-Day reports, but was discontinued after WWII.
DQK1Y TIL the U.S. National Park Service provides a record of Lost People on their site
LnVP TIL that in the 1960s, the sugar industry funded research that downplayed the risks of sugar and highlighted the hazards of fat
8bEG TIL “Testify” comes from the Latin word testis, which means “witness”. In ancient Rome, two men taking an oath of allegiance held each other’s testicles, and men held their own testicles as a sign of truthfulness while bearing witness in a public forum or court of law.
oRo4A TIL about Pinwright's Progress, the world's first regular half-hour sitcom which started in 1946 and was broadcast live from BBC