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TIL that Licca-Chan is a doll considered to be the Japanese equivalent to Barbie, enjoying more success in Japan due to appealing to 'sensibilities' that Barbie didn't carry since 1967

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AwnB TIL The Gnarls Barkley song ‘Crazy’ topped the UK charts for so long it was eventually pulled so people would “remember the song fondly and not get sick of it.”
oRlpR TIL some clothes have a tag with the manufacture date! It’s usually on the shinier little tag. Ex. 07/20 or SUM 09. This brings me joy.
ZpMKD TIL the Toraja people of Indonesia perform "Ma'nene", an annual ritual where the embalmed corpses of family members are removed from their tombs, groomed, dressed in new clothing, and treated as though they are still among the living. Torajans refer to the deceased as "sick", and only bury years on.
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
lbDV TIL there is no scientific evidence that Chiropractic medicine has any medical benefit.