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TIL Guy's Grocery Games is shot in a made for TV grocery story with 10 aisles stocked with 20,000 items including fresh meats, seafoods, produce and baked good which are donated to local food banks each week, nearly 30k lb per season.

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a8vEJ TIL Japanese Katana were using Chinese Tang Dynasty Sword (Dao) as prototypes for their own variant. Katana metal folding technique were used to compensate the quality of the japanese iron impurity as Chinese Dynasties restricted export of weapon material like iron to neighbours
OoN57 TIL: You can "TAKE YOUR SECRET TO THE GRAVE" without dying. A hollow tombstone in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery has a slot for depositing papers bearing secrets. (But at your own risk: the artist who says she'll burn the papers has done "performance art" of reading aloud her own dead mom's diary.)
kJQm TIL parrots are able to dance perfectly in time with music, and this may be connected to their ability to mimic and speak
jNL5X TIL that if you read the famous novel 'Cloud Atlas' in the US, you read a different version of it to readers in Europe. The same has happened with many novels, and it's down to the way works of fiction are handled by editors. Keep track of your changes...
e01Z5 TIL Rats were not to blame for the spread of plague during the Black Death, according to a study by a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara. After comparing infection data to models, they concluded that the spread of the Black Death can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice".