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TIL Out of eleven cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1%, Poland holds five

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Rro9 TIL in Japanese myth there’s a creature called the Ashiaraiyashiki. It is a giant, unwashed foot that appears before you and demands to be washed. If you don’t wash it, it will rampage through your house.
VM17B TIL that caterpillars don't "morph" into butterflies. Their bodies turn into a protein 'goop' within their chrysalis and rapid DNA-driven cell-division takes care of the rest.
49ZX TIL that Molotov Cocktails were named by the Finns after Vyacheslav Molotov, a Soviet politician, whom claimed over the radio that the Soviets were dropping food to the Finns, not bombs. Satirically, the Finns called Soviet bombs “Moltov bread baskets” and started making “Molotov cocktails”
X0rwD TIL Mosquito Hawks are neither mosquitoes nor hawks. They're also called "Skeeter-eaters" but don't eat mosquitoes.
N7OZ6 TIL that despite being the only predominantly Catholic nation in Asia, President McKinley, unaware said that American occupation of the Philippines was necessary to "uplift and Christianize" the Filipinos.