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TIL acetate frames are illegal to produce in South Korea.

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enoJ TIL yoga giant Lululemon’s name was chosen because founder Chip Wilson thought it was funny to watch Japanese people try to pronounce the letter ‘L’… Rururemon
9YZWp TIL: When roosters open their beaks fully, their external auditory canals completely closed off. Basically, roosters have built in earplugs. This helps prevent them from damaging their hearing when they crow.
OGP7g TIL that Puerto Rican and Cuban flags are intentionally similar. The PR flag is an intentionally inverted-color version of Cuban flag.
d15r TIL Yew trees can exceed 1000 years, are often found in graveyards, and have a long association with death; they’re deadly poisonous to humans, with no known antidote. However, the tree is used to make taxanes, which are used to fight cancer.
ney4b TIL that two men led a team of 80 people to collect over 1.2 million golden orb spiders, milk them for their silk, and create the rarest textile on earth: a golden silk cape