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TIL Manga is so popular in Japan that the country uses more paper for printing Manga than toilet paper.

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Vbnm TIL Boeing has created Microlattice,the world’s lightest metal which is 99.99% air.
0drnN TIL that every year, Western Europeans alone collectively lose about 1.6 million years of healthy life because of traffic noise.
vp1D TIL that, according to a 2007 study by the University of Southern Denmark, the secret to happiness is to have low expectations of life.
XEyVP TIL that the Black Spartans of Dahomey were one of history’s most fearsome warrior class. However, unlike the Samurai of Japan, the Knights of Europe, or the Immortals of Persia, this was an all woman Army.
G0w5 TIL that wasabi is sometimes referred to as “Japanese horseradish”. In Japan, horseradish is referred to as “western wasabi”.