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TIL sushi doesn’t mean raw fish, but vinegared rice

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x60B5 TIL that the second oldest restaurant in South Korea serves North Korean cuisine
yQVJ8 TIL that judges deliver significantly harsher verdicts when they’re hungry
RYr6 TIL in 2012, a neon light was discovered behind a bathroom wall in a Los Angeles restaurant, which had been left on for 77 years, amounting to over $17,000 in electric bills
e0KBL TIL In the Roman Empire, the legal phrase for "committing theft" was "furtum faciendum" which translates literally as "doing a sneak" (48.8.1)
lwA TIL that Birds are capable of seeing a 4th primary color (in the ultraviolet spectrum) totally invisible to humans. It allows them to see a both a totally different fundamental color, and all derivatives obtained by mixing it with the other three primary colors. The color Shmurple does exist.