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TIL North Korea is responsible for adding the hot beverage (☕), umbrella with raindrops (☔) and lightning bolt (⚡) emojis

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ep7pk TIL one of the nicknames of the Edmund Fitzgerald was 'the Titanic of the Great Lakes'. The ship famously sank in a November storm on Lake Superior. All of her 29 crew were lost.
9YaEX TIL that in 2004 McDonald's introduced "adult Happy Meal", which was positioned as a healthy choice, and included a salad, a fitness DVD, and a pedometer. The sales flopped and it was killed off after a few weeks.
awLWZ TIL a treatment in the Middle Ages for venomous snakebite was to pluck the feathers from a rooster's arse and place it on the site of the bite. Apparently its anus could suck up the venom. It was considered a good sign if the rooster died.
jNAen TIL activists tried to eliminate birthright citizenship from the constitution in 1942 to strip Japanese-Americans of their citizenship, claiming their “racial characteristics” made them “unfit for American citizenship.” It was defeated thanks to a coalition between the JACL, NAACP, and ACLU.
b60W0 TIL the chemical formula of trisodium citrate is Na3C6H5O7 and is the additive that causes cheese to liquify without separation