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TIL traditionally, Japanese cuisine does not include salmon sushi. However, in the 1980s, Norwegian producers sought to increase sales of their abundant salmon by inventing salmon sushi.

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kOjvW TIL the famous "Florence Y'all" water tower in Florence, KY, originally read "Florence Mall." However, since the Florence Mall hadn't been built yet, the Highway Bureau declared the advertisement unlawful. Instead of repainting the entire tower, they simply repainted one letter on the cheap
xVLlb TIL: The analogy about frogs not jumping out of water that is slowly raised to boiling stems from a 19th-century experiment demonstrating just that ... but the frog previously had its brain removed.
VB4o0 TIL that April Fool's Day has existed since at least the mid-sixteenth century. The earliest unambiguous reference is a poem published in 1561 by the Flemish writer Eduard De Dene, which described a nobleman who sent his servant back and forth on various absurd errands on April 1st
pxoG TIL: US District Judge William Alsup learnt Java in order to better judge the Oracle vs. Google case
woGlo TIL that honeybees can recognize human faces. Conventional wisdom holds that the ability to recognize faces requires a complex mammalian brain. But studies of paper wasps and honeybees have shown that some small-brained insects can manage this feat, too.