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TIL Häagen Dazs doesn’t mean anything in any language, the creator just wanted the name to sound like something foreign

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Y7KKd TIL 30% of people start eating a candy cane on the curved end.
78JLx TIL brazil declared war on germany in WW1
awxE0 TIL about physician Fukuchi Masaichi. His research on the subject of human skin brought him into contact with many people that had tattoos. He therefore became interested in 1926 in the art of Japanese tattoo,led autopsies on corpses,removed the skin and did research on methods to preserve the skin.
Njo6 TIL Ikea is actually a Non-profit “dedicated to furthering the advancement of architecture and interior design”
aw7Wb TIL Humans nearly went extinct, reducing to a population of only 8,800 which would qualify today as "endangered" before bouncing back