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TIL that there is a restaurant in Japan where you catch your own fish for them to cook.

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KOrBJ TIL there is a ship which can turn 90 degrees vertically, leaving most of it underwater, transforming itself into an underwater lab
dBKE TIL that “nearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.”
D1jKV TIL that over half of all forested land on Earth is located in just five countries: Russia, Canada, the US, China, and Brazil.
epBnL TIL A US Navy red cell kidnapped a civilian security officer as an exercise and proceeded to torture and beat him in a hotel room. The officer's wife nearly shot the members of the red cell, but the officer told her it was an exercise rather than a real kidnapping.
m1JaR TIL The Macintosh was named after McIntosh apple. The name was misspelled on purpose to avoid conflict with a manufacturer called McIntosh Laboratory.