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TIL Flowers were traditionally used at funerals to mask the stench of decomposition.

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yQx5e TIL Filet-O-Fish sandwiches are advertised as both a breakfast and a lunch item at McDonald’s restaurants in Japan.
7rr6p Short answer: Blame it on hot air, or swirling air, or something else
jN1OM TIL the U.S. developed a Bat Bomb containing thousands of hibernating bats, each carrying their own timed incendiary device. It was never deployed in war, but during testing the bats got loose and burned down an Air Force base.
xRB7 TIL after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 13% of the US people were in favor of “killing off” all Japanese people. And after Japan surrendered, 22.7% of Americans wished more atomic bombs had been dropped.
eJBJ TIL Charles Dance’s father was 72 years old when Charles was born.