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TIL a village in Portugal encourages children to smoke cigarettes as part of a traditional Epiphany ritual.

71 upvotes • delano1998

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TIL in 2013, JCPenney sold a stainless steel tea kettle that attracted controversy due to its perceived resemblance to Adolf Hitler.

71 upvotes • Yolo0o

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TIL that the scientific name for the genus of gorillas is Gorilla. The species western gorilla is named Gorilla gorilla. The subspecies western lowland gorilla is named Gorilla gorilla gorilla.

70 upvotes • BelowAverageGamer10

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TIL that the cannibal, Armin Meiwes, said the human meat tastes like pork, but a little bitterer and stronger. He ate an estimated 20 kg. (44 lb.) of his victims.

67 upvotes • AmeliaGairciand1992

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TIL the Japanese term "arigata-meiwaku". It is the sensation you get when someone performs you a favor you didn't want them to do, which may have caused you problems, but you have to be grateful nevertheless.

66 upvotes • green_morale

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TIL about Ötzi the Iceman, a remarkably well-preserved natural mummy from around 3300 BCE found in the Alps. Discovered in 1991, Ötzi is from Copper Age and had tattoos carried a copper axe, last meal was deer and grains. And still has relatives in Europe!

66 upvotes • tatooinex

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TIL Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario preserves one of the largest known concentrations of pre-contact rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred images were carved by Algonkian Indians between A.D. 900 - 1400

65 upvotes • ubcstaffer123

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TIL Colorado isn’t a rectangle and actually has 697 sides, mostly due to poor measurement tools

64 upvotes • crimson_dovah

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TIL Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) competes in the Olympics under their own flag.

60 upvotes • forever_tuesday

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TIL That the often represented visual of the Jellyfish is their Ephyra or Medusa developmental stage. Before the Ephyra stage, it is attached to the ground and has a "stalk-like" structure. This is known as the Polyp stage.

59 upvotes • PageTheKenku

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
TIL a village in Portugal encourages children to smoke cigarettes as part of a traditional Epiphany ritual.	71	delano1998
TIL in 2013, JCPenney sold a stainless steel tea kettle that attracted controversy due to its perceived resemblance to Adolf Hitler.	71	Yolo0o
TIL that the scientific name for the genus of gorillas is Gorilla. The species western gorilla is named Gorilla gorilla. The subspecies western lowland gorilla is named Gorilla gorilla gorilla.	70	BelowAverageGamer10
TIL that the cannibal, Armin Meiwes, said the human meat tastes like pork, but a little bitterer and stronger. He ate an estimated 20 kg. (44 lb.) of his victims.	67	AmeliaGairciand1992
TIL the Japanese term "arigata-meiwaku". It is the sensation you get when someone performs you a favor you didn't want them to do, which may have caused you problems, but you have to be grateful nevertheless.	66	green_morale
TIL about Ötzi the Iceman, a remarkably well-preserved natural mummy from around 3300 BCE found in the Alps. Discovered in 1991, Ötzi is from Copper Age and had tattoos carried a copper axe, last meal was deer and grains. And still has relatives in Europe!	66	tatooinex
TIL Petroglyphs Provincial Park, Ontario preserves one of the largest known concentrations of pre-contact rock carvings in Canada. Several hundred images were carved by Algonkian Indians between A.D. 900 - 1400	65	ubcstaffer123
TIL Colorado isn’t a rectangle and actually has 697 sides, mostly due to poor measurement tools	64	crimson_dovah
TIL Puerto Rico (a U.S. territory) competes in the Olympics under their own flag.	60	forever_tuesday
TIL That the often represented visual of the Jellyfish is their Ephyra or Medusa developmental stage. Before the Ephyra stage, it is attached to the ground and has a "stalk-like" structure. This is known as the Polyp stage.	59	PageTheKenku