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TIL Samurai usually wrote poems before ritual suicide.

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BgVyL TIL that Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy" was so popular that despite the original song "Ridin" winning a Grammy, people would go up to Chamillionaire and say that they heard his version of Weird Al's song
jNyXR TIL during WWII a Japanese submarine attacked coastal targets near Ellwood and Santa Barbara, California. The Steven Spielberg film, 1941, is partly based on this incident.
m1PjR TIL Electron microscopes produce only black and white images. Colour doesn’t exist at that scale, because the things it images are smaller than the wavelength of visible light but false colour as often used
R71nl TIL there are 177,147 ways to tie a necktie. Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm concluded this number by trying each possible way.
X0mgk TIL the word for Pennsylvania and "penis" is the same in Cantonese