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TIL the tradition of birthday candles began in Ancient Greece, when people brought cakes adorned with lit candles to the temple of Artemis, goddess of the hunt

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xZd0 TIL that Soviet Russia had a movie genre called Eastern(Ostern) which was their version of the Western genre, with stories taking place in the Asian part of Russia
VMRZk TIL in 2017 North Korea arrested and tortured an American tourist college student, Otto Warmbier, for stealing a poster. He died of his wounds 6 days after being released back to his family
xLJk TIL Last year, a Chinese company sold over 110 million counterfeit condoms to Ghana.
kOY9W TIL that wasabi was originally paired with sushi not because of flavor, but because of its antibacterial and anti-parasitic properties.
e0XR5 TIL a 37 meter cat image was found etched on a hillside in Nazca, Peru. The feline geoglyph adds to 100s of Nazca geoglyphs made by removing surface rocks/earth to reveal contrasting earth. Discovered and restored just months ago, archaeologists say the big cat was first made between 200BC - 100 BC.