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TIL Chicken a la Maryland was served on the last menu of the Titanic voyage, which is fried chicken topped with sautéed banana

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d878d TIL about the Battle of Camaron, where 64 French Foreign Legionnaires resisted to 3,000 mexican soldiers for a whole day long. The 3 last legion survivors, heavily wounded, refused to continue the fight at their own terms.
QNQeE TIL The most common type of brain cancer, Glioblastoma, has a typical 5-year survival rate of 5%, with only one person ever having been cured of the disease.
WkLg8 TIL that a suicide bombers plan to blow herself up on New Year’s Eve was thwarted by a spam “Happy New Year” text message from her cell phone provider which prematurely detonated her explosive in her safe house.
pY4wG TIL Harvey Ball, the man who designed the popular smiley face graphic picture, never applied for a trademark for the smiley image and only earned $45 for his work. His son once said: “He was not a money-driven guy. He used to say: ‘Hey, I can only eat one steak at a time, drive one car at a time.'”
6xGm TIL that an ancient Carthaginian explorer discovered the Gorillas and thought they were “savage people”.