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TIL that Japan imports rice from the U.S. in order to comply with World Trade Organization rules, but little of it is eaten by the Japanese. Instead it is given to North Korea as food aid, fed to pigs or left to rot in warehouses.

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Y71yP TIL Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, who revolutionised 3D graphics, and developed the industry-standard method for animating curved surfaces, has the rare condition Aphantasia, i.e. complete inability to visualise mental images.
Jxb8 TIL that Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s pet chimpanzee, attempted suicide after being removed from Neverland Ranch for being too aggressive.
J1Pvl TIL in 2012, a tour group visiting Iceland announced that they had lost track of a group member. A woman decided to help with the intense police search to find the fellow traveler. The search lasted for several hours, before the woman realized that the person everyone was searching for was herself.
L89m TIL the Satanic Temple is a religion that worships Satan mainly so that they can horrify Christians by claiming religious exemptions championed by Christian groups, like school prayer
kOL64 TIL that more men were killed in the 8th Air Force (Bombers) in WWII than in the entire Marine Corps