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TIL that we have discovered only two interstellar objects that have passed through our solar system.

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VMnOp TIL that Japan's Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan is the world's oldest hotel. Founded in 705, it has been continuously operated by 52 generations of the same family.
v1PKj TIL bestiality is legal in Japan. Are they that scared of adjudicating the "it was the squid's fault" defense?
4kXPJ TIL British duo The Chemical Brothers used to call themselves The Dust Brothers (from the US duo of the same name) on their early days. They had to change it from Dust to Chemical shortly before releasing their 1st album because the US Dust Brothers threatened them to sue them if they didn't.
M7oE7 TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story in 1838 about a shipwrecked crew that cannibalized their own cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker. Then in 1884. a real life ship sank and the surviving crew drifting in a lifeboat, cannibalized their cabin boy whose name was Richard Parker
9w8gM TIL that a "PAP" smear is not an acronym but refers to the doctor who pioneered the procedure.