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TIL the pickled ginger served with most sushi is meant to cleanse your palate between different pieces and can be offensive to the chef if used as a topping.

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78YAL TIL that the test to measure the maneuverability in automobiles is called the elk test because it measure how successfully a vehicle handles avoiding large unexpected animals on Scandinavians roads.
WkGeL TIL twins can be born with different fathers in a conflict raising surprise known as heteropaternal superfecundation where the woman releases multiple eggs days apart
VBobp TIL the average desk-bound employee spends 28 per cent of their professional lives reading and responding to e-mails
mQkR TIL that Günther Quandt who is the founder of BMW, was a member of the Nazi party and supplied the Nazi regime with ammunitions. Hitler gave him the title of Wehrwirtschaftsführer or “Leader in the War Economy.“
rNnGx TIL according to tribal lore, the Choctaw tribe settled in the land of present-day Alabama after sailing across the Gulf of Mexico from the Yucatán peninsula. DNA evidence supports this origin story.