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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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oVGo TIL of the ‘Japanese Smoking Paradox’ where Japanese smokers smoke more than US/European males but have much lower lung cancer rates and nobody is entirely sure why.
JYORV TIL Michael Jordan wanted a sponsorship deal with Adidas but they thought he was too short. He signed with Nike instead and today his brand makes about $3 billion a year in sales, with $100 million going to Jordan.
9Zpp TIL that since the 11th century there have only been two cases of British royal marriages where the couple have been unrelated.
ZQBa TIL it is possible to become a lawyer in 4 states with zero formal education in law
VB69p TIL cells contain a protein machine, called the proteasome, which takes misfolded proteins that can't be refolded and breaks them into smaller subunits. It is part of a system called the ubiquitin–proteasome, where ubiquitins detects the misfolded proteins and sends them to the proteasome.