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TIL There is gum from Japan that acts as deodorant making your whole body smell good

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yQg1e TIL that "dry lightning" and "heat lightning" are myths. They are actually just extremely distant thunderstorms.
wopJE TIL commercial mayonnaise doesn’t need to be refrigerated. My mind is blown
OoOr1 TIL the ice cream brand Häagen-Dazs is a completely fabricated foreign name. The actual company founders were New York Jews who wanted a Danish-sounding brand name to honor Danes after WWII.
EJQ0 TIL that the Roman Emperor Commodus would fight in the arena as a gladiator. His opponents consisted of giraffes, citizens missing limbs and wounded roman soldiers. For every appearance in the arena he charged the city of Rome 1 million coins.
v0kL TIL the nation of Sweden’s official “@Sweden” Twitter account is given to a different citizen every week to manage