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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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V0Op TIL A 15-year-old liver transplant patient is the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.
b60oE TIL in 2020, 68-year-old actress Ana Obregón lost her only son to cancer at 27. After his death, she used her son's frozen sperm to grant her wish of having a granddaughter (via surrogacy) who she's currently raising as her daughter.
R7Qra TIL Home Depot founder Ken Lagone and his wife donated $100,000,000 to fund free tuition for every student attending New York University's medical school
5N19 TIL Charles Darwin’s cousin Francis Galton invented the dog whistle, meteorology, forensic fingerprinting and mathematical correlation. He also suggested that principles of animal breeding could be applied to humans, coined the word ‘eugenics’, and came up with the 'nature vs nurture’ idea.
pYJKp TIL The first Indigenous Inhabitants of Australia lived alongside Giant Monitor Lizards, which could range from 11 to 23 Feet long.