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TIL less than 20% of Japanese people have passports

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m1VGY TIL a message in a bottle thrown off the Titanic the day before she sank was discovered washed up on a Canadian beach in 2021, after drifting for nearly 100 years.
NX4WM TIL Vikings didn’t wear horned helmets
W1WN TIL the wasabi you eat with your sushi rarely contains any actual wasabi. True wasabi is expensive to cultivate as it only grows in and around riverbeds in Japan, so you are likely eating a hydrated mixture horseradish, mustard, starch and green food coloring.
a8YL9 TIL Aphantasia is a condition affecting 1 to 3% of people. Its mind or imagination blindness. People with Aphantasia cannot visualize anything in the minds.
KQ6a TIL when the Abbey National Building Society moved into 219-229 Baker Street, London, they employed a full-time secretary to answer mail addressed to Sherlock Holmes (fictional address: 221b Baker Street)