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TIL Mexico is named after its capital Mexico City, not the other way around

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e0OP5 TIL: John Lovitz has had a long running feud with Andy Dick over Phil Hartmans death
QJbYE TIL before firing the director of “The Walking Dead”, AMC sent notes to then director Frank Darabont with suggestions on how to lower the budget for season 2. One of these suggestions read: “Couldn't the audience hear the zombies sometimes and not see them, to save on makeup?”
9bdQ TIL that the windshield of the SR-71 Blackbird can reach a temperature of over 600°F during flights at mach 3. It had to be made of quartz and was ultrasonically fused to the titanium hull in order to handle the stress.
M9B7 TIL of Bog Butter, animal fat that has been stored in North European swamps for thousands of years and is still edible.
9YdwM TIL The Harlem Globetrotters played the Minneapolis Lakers (now the L.A. Lakers) in a real basketball game in 1948, and won 61-59. The match helped prove that the NBA should be open to black athletes.