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TIL black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.

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loWDN TIL that the Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency. Instead, it is "the world’s largest business organization"
dDNQ7 TIL that sailors call the Suez Canal, the "Marlboro Canal", because of having to hand out crates of Marlboro to Egyptian pilots and authorities as an extortion fee.
nWwPY TIL that Lady Gaga's song 'Poker Face' is about her bisexuality. The idea behind the song is that she is with a man but fantasizing about a woman, so the man in the song needs to read her 'poker face.'"
gMBpD TIL that a man named Mauro Morandi has been living in isolation on Italy’s Budelli island for 31 years
Rlm4 TIL that Google is working on a contact lense for people with Diabetes that will check their blood glucose with their tears (x-post from r/diabetes)