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TIL that Quaker Oats produced Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

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7rZoP TIL of the “metabo law” which requires all Japanese citizens over the age 40 to have their waist measurements taken once a year. Anyone deemed to be overweight is given three months to shape up.
OGYb4 TIL when a coal waste pile collapsed onto the Welsh village of Aberfan in 1966, school lunch lady Nansi Williams saw the disaster coming and flung herself onto five schoolchildren to shield them from the avalanche. All five children survived, but Nansi did not.
5YjRB TIL all current Purple Heart medals awarded still today were created for the Japanese invasion during WWII that never happened
KOb84 TIL There is a group of people in Greece that developed a language of whistling to communicate long distances while sheep herding
PopZ TIL Oklahoma (not California, Japan, Chile, etc) Experiences More Earthquakes Than Anywhere Else in the World