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TIL that Tokyo Gas Mascot is a blue bear that farts fire

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78YWM TIL that Thailand's national dish "Pad Thai" is actually a modern creation invented to combat famine and create nationalism in the 1930s because it created double the volume of food as from the same amount of rice grains as boiled rice.
Z8PmY TIL about Elizabeth Sugrue, Irelands only female executioner. Sentenced to death, she volunteered to hang the other prisoners in exchange for her life, as the local hangman was ill on that day. Her offer was accepted, and she was kept for the job.
Mj70 TIL that Ron Howard has given each of his children the middle name of where they were conceived: Bryce (Dallas), Jocelyn and Paige (Carlyle; Carlyle Hotel, NYC), and Reed (Cross; famous London street. Reed was named after the street because according to Howard, “Volvo isn’t a very good middle name.”
J1bl TIL that Ian Fleming, the original author of the James Bond series, also wrote the famous children’s book “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang”
0w9EN TIL pineapple scales form diagonal rows corresponding with numbers in the Fibonacci sequence