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TIL that the earliest form of sushi, known as narezushi, was made by fermenting fish with rice and salt for preservation. It wasn't until the 19th century that the sushi we know today, such as nigiri sushi, was invented by a Tokyo-based chef named Hanaya Yohei.

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6EAB8 TIL that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke a creole language associated with the descendants of slaves called Gullah as his first-language and that his relative silence on the Court is due in part to self-consciousness from being teased about the way he spoke as a child in rural Georgia.
5PKn TIL Yugoslavia spent $6 billion constructing an underground airport that can withstand a direct strike from a 20 kiloton nuclear warhead
m6MP TIL that in 2001, the King of Nepal was killed by his son, the Crown Prince, when he went on a shooting spree that killed nearly a dozen members of the royal family.
jNGKM TIL moon is moving 4 cm away from earth every year. In 50 billion years, both will be tidelocked in an orbit in which both will show only one face to each other.
p8KR8 TIL serial killer Carroll Cole, responsible for the deaths of at least 15 women, killed his first victim at just 8 years of age, drowning a classmate in a lake. The death was thought to have been an accident until he confessed in an autobiography he wrote in prison.