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TIL of "Pad Man" Arunachalam Muruganantham who devised a way to cheaply manufacture menstrual pads for poor regions

TIL about the Cowbird Mafia that destroy the eggs of smaller birds that refuse to raise cowbird eggs

TIL about Narcocorridos or drug songs commissioned by drug cartels to sing about the illegal drug business

TIL that popcorn originates all the way back to the Aztec Empire . Where corn, and particularly popcorn, helped lay the foundations for the Aztec Empire.

TIL President Rutherford B. Hayes remembered in the US mostly for being the first president to lose the popular vote and win the electoral vote, is remembered very fondly in Paraguay for his help in settling a territorial dispute that ensured "its survival as a country"

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