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TIL Cashmere Wool Comes From Goats, Not Sheep

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P1aOV TIL shrimp farmers deliberately blind female shrimp, to stimulate egg production
5l9 TIL you can go into shops/restaurants on Google Maps in Japan
0wKwp TIL that Robert Wang, inventor of the Instant Pot reads every review of his product. When one customer commented that it would be nice if it could make yogurt, he created a new model that could do that, then sent the reviewer the new model as a thank you. He still reads every review.
JYjKB TIL that Adolf Hitler received an award for bravery during World War 1 on the recommendation of Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann, Hitler's Jewish superior.
6ENo8 TIL a recent study showed that subjects preferred to give themselves electric shocks rather than occupy themselves with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative