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TIL Kobe Beef in the U.S. is basically a huge sham

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nwwG TIL The world’s oceans teem with something like 700,000 to 1 million species, up to two-thirds of which biologists have never named or characterized
LkVDv TIL of Dick Assman, a Canadian gas station employee that was propelled to fame by his name. His father's name was Adolf Assman.
wjnP TIL that John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) of the Sex Pistols has been married for over 30 years to a German publishing heiress
EgOJ7 TIL That when making the Popeye movie in 1980, the production built the whole town it is set in on Malta and it still stands and is fully operational today
wLGrW TIL The German military manual states that a military order is not binding if it is not "of any use for service," or cannot reasonably be executed. Soldiers must not obey unconditionally, the government wrote in 2007, but carry out "an obedience which is thinking.".