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TIL Japan has only eaten raw salmon since the 90s due to pacific salmon being prone to parasites, it took Norway having an excess of the Atlantic variety for raw salmon to become popular there and considered safe for consumption.

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PYpaG Today I Learned that you can buy water bottled in Flint Michigan - its sold as a novelty, and not considered safe for human consumption.
QWjd TIL That a robotic chess machine called ‘The Turk’ toured the world in the 1700s, easily defeating prominent statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte. A human chess master was long suspected to have been hidden inside, but wasn’t exposed for 84 years.
kOQRg TIL that a man, after eating Brazil Nuts, had unprotected sex with a woman who was allergic to them, transferring the proteins from said nuts and thus causing the first sexually transmitted allergic reaction
R5Zl4 TIL in 1916, Woodrow Wilson ran for re-election on the slogan "He kept us out of war," promising to maintain neutrality during World War I. But shortly after his surprise win, he led the US into the war in 1917, sparking significant backlash and dramatically shifting the nation's foreign policy.
V1B8 TIL Liza Minnelli only accepted the role of Lucille 2 on Arrested Development because she was asked in person by Ron Howard, who she had babysat when he was a child and she a teen