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TIL blackcurrant flavour is almost unknown in America because blackcurrant can spread disease to pine trees so was banned for most of the 20th century

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4Xywa TIL lizards dream!
d8Em7 TIL the Kublai Khan invaded Japan in 1274 with 33,000 troops but failed due to weather. Kublai Khan again invaded Japan in 1279 with 140,000 troops & made it 15 km away from the city of Fukuoka but again failed due to a typhoon. It was here the term kamikaze (divine wind) was born.
epn6L TIL Japanese tanks in WWII were so lightly armored that U.S. troops could knock them out using .30 caliber machine gun fire.
xdNw TIL that Northern Elephant Seals were thought to be extinct until eight were discovered on Guadalupe Island in 1874 by a Smithsonian expedition. They then killed seven for their collections.
7mjL TIL 99.7% of Japanese court cases result in conviction