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

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ABb4 TIL of Shirley Temple’s time as a diplomat. She was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ghana and Czechoslovakia, as well as the first female Chief of Protocol of the United States.
OoEk4 TIL 1.7 million packages are stolen from US porches every day
kJpRE TIL the Founding Fathers of the USA advocated for a monarch-like system for the newly formed nation right after defeating Britain in the American Revolutionary War.
Y1k7 TIL that in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade, even the rats were insured - the insurer wanted to know the minimum number of rats and a policy was written with “1,000 rats deductible”
wLngP TIL in 1973 before reality TV, an anthropologist sailed across the Atlantic with 11 attractive people of different races/sex/nationalities. Known as the "sex raft" he'd purposely done this to stoke sexual relations, create tension, and purposely sought danger to see if humans would act like monkeys.