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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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QJX6X TIL White House Police officer Leslie Coffelt was fatally shot while protecting President Truman in an assassination attempt, but managed to kill his attacker with a headshot from 30 feet away before dying.
OoWd4 TIL whitehead pimples come from a build up of bacteria in the follicles beneath your skin with small openings that dont allow air to come in, while blackheads are exposed to air through larger pores in your follicles causing them to oxidise blackening them.
8a8MP It's long been known that Hawking's birthday, January 8, 1942, fell on the 300th anniversary of the death of another great science mind, Galileo Galilei. But the day of his death, in the early hours of March 14, 2018 at his home in Cambridge, England, happened to coincide with the birthday of yet another genius: Albert Einstein, born March 14, 1879.
b9enZ TIL that the practice of binding babies' heads (known as artificial cranial deformation) was predominant in France as late as the 20th century.
oRleL TIL: That Red Bull energy drinks contain different amounts of caffeine, taurine and B vitamins depending on the country in which they are sold.