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TIL they are called Brussels sprouts, not brussel sprouts

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naG7 TIL In 2011, a month after the Fukushima disaster, the FDA stopped testing Pacific fish for radiation.
kl85 TIL French poet Gérard de Nerval supposedly took a lobster on walks in the Palais Royal gardens in Paris on the end of a blue silk ribbon, saying “they are peaceful, serious creatures. They know the secrets of the sea, they don’t bark, and they don’t gnaw upon one’s monadic privacy like dogs do.”
b6Rm0 TIL that Ancient Kyoto, which is steeped in history, was Japan’s imperial capital from 794 CE to 1869. During World War II, the United States thought about bombing Kyoto due to its large population, but it was spared and now flourishes with many prewar buildings and traditional homes.
An1w TIL in 2008 pranksters hacked into a Czech weathercast and added a nuclear bomb blast to the live video of the view outdoors.
ZpmnQ TIL that a production flaw meant CD's manufactured by the UK branch of Philips and Dupont Optical (PDO) between 1988 and 1993 would be able to react with their own paper booklets and be rendered unreadable.