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TIL Article I, Section 9, Clause 5 of the US Constitution makes export tariffs illegal.

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DOkg TIL the founder of Japan’s McDonald’s stated, “Japanese people are so short and have yellow skins because they have eaten nothing but fish and rice for two thousand years. If we eat McDonald’s hamburgers for a thousand years we will become taller, our skin become white, and our hair blonde.”
kOZp1 TIL about Jerusalem Syndrome, an acute psychotic disorder which causes some people who visit Jerusalem to slip into a psychosis and believe they’re a biblical figure
YpxEv TIL that in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
QNLea TIL about the pumpkin toadlet, a tiny Brazilian toad that due to its tiny ear canal makes it terrible at hopping
lokr TIL Inception was originally suppose to be a horror movie