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TIL During WW1 Sauerkraut was called liberty cabbage.

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44Mw TIL that in 2000, Nintendo gave away free sports gloves to the owners of the Original Mario Party because so many players were cutting open their palms on the rotating joystick mini-games.
X0D5P TIL the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has an online store where they sell Standards Reference Materials that are used to standardize accurate and compatible measuring across industries. 510g of SRM Peanut Butter costs $1,069.00.
b9MxN TIL there is a difference between medical signs and symptoms
8anoG TIL that Lake Superior is so cold that bacteria needed to cause a submerged dead body to float and surface is unable to grow. Due to this, many bodies from shipwrecks, such as the Edmund Fitzgerald, have never been recovered.
b6v6N TIL Japan's Prime Minister in 1989, Sosuke Uno, was forced to resign after a geisha revealed his infidelity to the public.