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TIL 1 in 12 men are colorblind
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TIL The great composer J.S. Bach, who created monumentally beautiful choral works like the St. Matthew Passion, got into a dagger fight with one of his students after calling him a "nanny-goat bassoonist".
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TIL Ekiben are bento (Japanese box meals) made specifically for train travel. The meals vary by train station and are typically a local speciality. At their peak in the 1980s an estimated 12 million ekiben were consumed daily in Japan.
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TIL, Vicuna, the source of the world’s rarest fabric, can’t be farmed because the animals starve themselves in captivity.
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TIL polygamy is strictly illegal in the US, meaning even if you mistakenly believe your spouse is dead or your divorce is final, marrying another person is a felony punishable with a 5 year prison sentence.
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TIL spiders don’t actually bite you while you’re sleeping, and probably never actually even go on your bed. Bumps attributed to nighttime spider bites are most often due to non-bite disease conditions!