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TIL 80% of the world's vanilla is grown on a single island
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TIL The girl from “The Ring” was inspired by a true story/legend. A young girl, Okiku, was a Samurai’s servant who refused his advances. After being thrown down a well by the spurned Samurai, she reportedly haunted him by crawling out of the well to visit him every night.
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TIL Bono from U2 was named after a hearing aid shop in Dublin
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TIL Spain brought back so much Aztec gold that it caused massive inflation and crashed the economy of Europe.
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TIL that Sriracha sauce (“rooster sauce”) founder Huy Fong started his company in a small office in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, hand-grinding peppers and selling the sauce to friends - he now runs it out of a 655,000 square foot HQ.
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TIL: that until 1990, British judges would wear a black cap while pronouncing execution sentences, and that it is still used in some ceremonies today