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TIL that there’s a hamburger joint in Tokyo called Whoopi Goldburger.

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oRV4E TIL that Cambodia is one of the world's few elective monarchies along with Malaysia, the Vatican and the United Arab Emirates
PNOG TIL a man known as the “town bully” in Skidmore, MO was shot twice and killed. There were 46 potential witnesses. No one was ever convicted.
m1vrE TIL the CIA funded the exhibition of modern art in Europe in the 1940s-60s in order to wage a cultural war on the Soviet Union. Via the Rockefeller Foundation and MOMA, the US government funded abstract expressionist exhibitions believing that they represented a counterpoint to Soviet realism style
BgJoK TIL that portobello mushrooms and white button mushrooms are the same mushroom, just at different stages of growth. Same with crimini (the brown ones).
mYaP TIL The government can prevent itself from being sued, simply by claiming that to bring the case to court would reveal state secrets. In the Supreme Court precedent case, the government lied about any secrets being revealed