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TIL some mattresses literally have fiberglass in them. CA is the only state in the US to have banned this practice - as of October 2023.

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kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.
dO47 TIL in June of 1985 a drunk student hijacked a Boeing in Norway demanding to talk to the prime minister. He later surrendered in exchange of more beer.
QdnX TIL of the Holodomor, an attempted genocide with a death toll surpassing that of the Holocaust. Between 1932-1933 Stalin purposely starved up to 7,000,000 Ukrainians.
bryj TIL that Americans were so confident that crime was caused by alcohol that on the eve of prohibition, some towns in the U.S. sold their jails.
nPY7 TIL of Betteridge’s law of headlines, which states that any headline that ends with a question mark can be answered with the word no.