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TIL that Ramen (instant noodles) were voted as the greatest Japanese invention of the 20th century.

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lYMa TIL there are more tigers in Texas than in their native land of India
yQk4a TIL The “Windy City” name has nothing to do with Chicago weather it was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”
M7aW TIL A woman from England can see 99 million more colours than the rest of the worlds population.
16577 TIL that during World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana received the Blue Cross Medal for extinguishing an incendiary bomb by peeing on it.
oXko TIL Hibakusha, survivors of the atomic bombs, faced considerable discrimination in Japan following the war. Families forbade theor children from marrying hibakusha, and they were often denied employment due to fears that the radiation they were exposed to was hereditary, or contagious.