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TIL That Mexican music was very popular in Yugoslavia during the '60s. With young people dressing up in mariachi outfits.

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v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.
DNyD TIL before broadcasting it on national television, a TV station - KTLA - edited out ten seconds of the video that showed Rodney King charging the officers that beat him. The edited footage was later cited by members of the jury as essential to the acquittal of the officers.
PYMGZ TIL the Chocolate Chip Cookie didn’t exist prior to 1938, when it was invented by the owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
8aob8 TIL Mila Kunis was born in Ukraine and moved to this country not speaking any English. At age 14 she started playing Jackie Burkhart, lying about her age (the producers asked if if she was turning 18 and she simply said yes not indicating exactly when).
Br6yr TIL a race condition bug in the Therac-25 (a radiation therapy machine) caused some patients to receive radiation doses "that were hundreds of times greater than normal". The bug arose after technicians became 'to efficient' at entering commands causing code to execute in an unintended order.