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TIL the phrase “abracadabra” originates from the book Liber Medicinalis by Quintus Sammonicus

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e08g5 TIL when Eva Peron died at 33, her body was embalmed and put on display. After a military coup it was lost for 16 years, until it was found in Italy and returned to her husband who kept it in his dining room. Upon his death, both corpses were displayed together briefly before finally being buried.
0w7nL TIL: the popular Sriracha sauce in the US (in the green-capped bottle) tastes different because they have a different supplier of chile peppers. The owner sued the original supplier for $1 million claiming he overpaid. The farmer countersued and won $23.3 million and now makes his own sriracha.
R55g8 TIL In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country that is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better.
kwZg TIL George Washington had red hair.
Y7JE7 TIL that during the famous 1959 Kitchen Debate, Khrushchev claimed that Nixon's grandchildren would live under communism. But Khrushchev would later be disproven as it was his son instead that became a naturalized American citizen.