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TIL German parents not allowed to name their child Lucifer

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yapp TIL the fortune cookie was created by Japanese Americans and originally associated with Japanese food. In WWII, Japanese Americans were forced into internment camps and Chinese American manufacturers took control of the market, which is why today fortune cookies are associated with Chinese food.
rN7Px TIL turtles and tortoises have nerve endings in the shells. They can feel you touch their shells as well as pain when something hurts their shell.
XEgbk TIL that fossils of sea creatures called Ammonites are considered holy symbols in the folk Hindu beliefs of India and Nepal. They and other marine fossils are found in the Himalayas, which were raised from the now-drained Tethys Sea. Climbers to Mt Everest have brought back fossils of Sea Lilies.
7rXB7 TIL after a cremation, you don’t get “ash” back. They take leftover bones and pulverize it into a powder
VBpjk TIL that Planets don't orbit exactly the sun's center — they orbit a common center of mass in between their and the sun's center called the barycenter. The barycenter of Jupiter and sun actually just outside the sun's surface!