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TIL that in Japan, you give gifts with both hands and you receive gifts with both hands

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Moob TIL that when Louisiana law enforcement refused to act in a timely manner, a kidnapping victim’s family got their guns, tracked down her captor, killed him and ultimately saved her.
yV87X TIL that 13% of finishers tested at the 2002 Boston Marathon had hyponatremia (caused by overconsumption of fluids)
NXxbP TIL about Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, inventor of the Happy Meal. She was the daughter of the Chilean embassador to Guatemala. Her husband owned the first McDonalds in Guatemala, and she went to study in the Hamburger University.
rRPKw TIL about the Republic of Vermont, an independent republic that lasted from 1777 to 1791, which, after breaking away from Quebec, fought with the Americans against the British in the Revolutionary War, and was admitted to the union as a counterweight to the slave state of Kentucky.
YpYmZ TIL the first song sung by a computer was Daisy Bell (1892) in the year 1961.