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TIL that before WW1, Japan was seriously considering adopting Islam as its national religion until the West gained power and Japan dumped the idea

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VBYeD TIL About Pink Floyd, a wild flamingo that escaped from a zoo in Wichita KS in 2005 and has been evading capture ever since.
mxWoo TIL of Sam Panopoulos, a Greek Canadian restaurateur who in 1962 at the Satellite restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, decided to put ham and pineapple on a pizza, aiming for something sweet and savory. He called it the Hawaiian pizza and his food invention has earned wrath and praise ever since.
gMajb TIL that all potatoes used to make fries from Five Guys are required to be grown north of the 42nd parallel.
KvKE TIL Steve Jobs would sue companies after they would help create something for apple. (They also didn’t create anything on their own)
xV6Lb TIL: There is a hate culture within the hearing impaired community