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TIL Newsstand sales account for a small percentage of National Geographic magazine’s monthly circulation. It is only available to subscribers now and stopped appearing on newsstands in 2023 as part of cutbacks

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nNmY TIL That “Sushi” is not actually Japanese. It originated in South East Asia, and caught on in China, then finally in Japan.
7Z6Z TIL the Easter Island heads also have bodies.
95Z6 TILL there once a breed of dog called turnspit dogs, who’s sole purpose was to run on a wheel that turned meat to cook it evenly. The wheel was put high on the wall, to keep the dogs from overheating due to the nearby fire.
Wko5Y TIL John Richard Deacon, bass guitarist of Queen, was the only member never to sing on their records. In Bohemian rhapsody's musical video, he was just pretending to
8eExZ TIL South Africa is the first country to voluntarily dismantle its own nuclear weapons it had developed itself