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TIL Christianity is the fastest growing religion in Iran.

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KOkgQ TIL about Kiviak, a traditional Inuit food from Greenland that consists of up to 500 small birds stuffed into a seal skin and left to ferment for several months. "The fermented intestinal fluids are sucked out from the whole birds, or used as a sauce for other foods."
78m7Z TIL there's a noodle factory in Indonesia that still uses a bull to mill its flour and make the dough
b6nRp TIL That Tanagra was a real place and that a battle took place there... however, there were no characters in that battle by the names of Darmok or Jalad.
gM9WL TIL That Akira Toriyama, author of Dragon Ball, received a lot of fan mail that his art was "Too Square". Just to piss of those fans, he inserted as many squares as possible in subsequent chapters
LQR7Q TIL that the ship that inspired the German gunboat Louisa in the the film "The African Queen" is still in use today. The MY Liemba serves as a passenger and cargo ferry in Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania. It was first built in 1913 and as of 2024 is undergoing renovation before returning to use