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TIL in Japan couples and close family members use Mimikaki, a wooden stick with a hook to clear out each others ears. This is seen as both a show of trust and affection.

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JYp9B TIL that live squirrel monkeys were advertised - for real - for sale on the back of comics and magazines in the late 60’s/early 70’s. They sold for the low low price of $18.95. Many were purchased by children. Many of the monkeys attacked when opened. The attached is just one account.
6EOXX TIL that the first Thanksgiving meal included eels, shellfish, wildfowl, and deer, and there was definitely no cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie.
oRenW TIL about Okinotorishima, a Japanese island located in the middle of the Pacific which is administered by the Tokyo Prefecture
j6Nrv TIL that while filming The Jazz Singer (1980), Neil Diamond, who was new to acting, was having trouble playing a scene where his character was supposed to be angry, so he asked his band to play a Barry Manilow song to make him angry for real.
PY0vn TIL of Barry Marshall who challenged the scientific consensus that ulcers were caused by stress. After being ridiculed and having his papers rejected in 1984 he infected himself with ulcer inducing bacteria and proved the scientific elites wrong. He subsequently won the Nobel Prize in Medicine