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TIL that Texas used to be part of Mexico until 1836. Then it became an independent country for 9 years before being annexed by the United States in 1845.

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YpmaA TIL Entomophagy refers to insect-eating. Roughly 2 billion people (over 25% of the world's population) regularly eat insects as part of their diet. Despite being inexpensive, eco-friendly, and high in protein, the West is the only region where insects are not eaten.
9wbkM TIL dandelions are thought to have evolved about 30 million years ago in Eurasia. They have been used by humans as food and medicine for most of recorded history. It is thought they were brought to North America on the Mayflower.
kJB9g TIL Elvis Presley craved the Fool's Gold Loaf, which consists of a hollowed-out loaf of French bread filled with one 1-lb. jar each of creamy peanut and grape jelly and a pound of fried bacon. It packs ~8,000 calories. He and friends once flew from Memphis to Denver to eat 30 of them.
VMdN8 TIL that in 1964, Robert Peabody was exposed to 7 Sieverts/10K rads of radiation after confusing his chemicals, adding uranium solution instead of trichloroethane to his Uranium-235 mixture. He died 49 hours later.
BrRRW TIL that Norman Borlaug saved more than a billion lives with a "miracle wheat" that averted mass starvation, becoming 1 of only 5 people to win the Nobel Peace Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom, and Congressional Gold Medal. He said, "Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world."