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TIL that when curry was introduced into Japan it was considered a British dish, not an Indian one, because of its popularity among British sailors.

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PY9mZ TIL Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was written as a cynical response to The Captain & Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together."
Yp9Rr TIL of the Great Attractor, a gravitational anomaly suggesting a concentration of mass thousands of times more massive than our entire galaxy. However, it is obscured by the Zone of Avoidance (the Milky Way’s galactic plane), making it very difficult to directly observe.
ne9po Today I Learned about Pirate Joe's, a popular specialty grocery store in Vancouver Canada that exclusively resold Trader Joe's products the owner bought in the US (Canada does not have TJs) which he did via weekly trips in an unmarked van to various locations that he became banned from
yVbme TIL that the US has a higher suicide rate than Japan
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