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TIL Most wasabi eaten in the United States is actually just a blend of horseradish, mustard, and food coloring due to the prices of real wasabi.

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ZG4Q TIL there’s a boiling lake so hot that the centre has never been reached, and therefore the maximum depth and temperature are unknown.
jYN TIL that when the Spanish asked the Mayans what their land was named, they replied “Yucatán” which literally translates to “I don’t understand you.”
deR9 TIL it is legal in 25 states for police to detain persons and request such persons to identify themselves, and arrest them if they do not.
9w5G6 TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza
6jQX TIL that after Bill Murray’s character in the 2001 film Osmosis Jones mentioned a fictitious “National Chicken Wing Festival” in Buffalo, New York, the city created a real version of the festival, and has held it every year since then.