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TIL there's a Japanese proverb that literally translates to "Don't let your daughter-in-law eat your autumn eggplants"

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m1ZkO TIL There is one coal powered commercial ship still operating in the US. It's a 71 year old ship used as a car and passenger ferry across Lake Michigan in summer.
WJ4B TIL that the Israeli postal service receives more than 1,000 letters addressed to “God” every year. Instead of disposing or archiving them, the undeliverable mail department opens them, and puts them between the cracks of the Western Wall.
Vnm0 TIL the inventor of the ATM proposed a 6 digit bank PIN but switched it to 4 digits because it was the longest string of numbers that his wife could remember.
OoM77 TIL that Ulysses S. Grant not only created the Department of Justice, he also supported the Fifteenth Amendment and asked Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1871, allowing him to combat and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.
GYJDG TIL Charles Darwin never used the phrase “survival of the fittest” and actually argued against it.