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TIL Refried beans are only fried once

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d8DG9 TIL the guards at the tomb of the Unknown Soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery actually yell at you when you are disrespectful
M75nK TIL more people have died from 9/11-related asbestos and toxic dust exposure than were killed in the attack itself
VB1YQ TIL The African Island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has a 500 year tradition of drama called 'Tchiloli', where just one play, the 16th century 'The Tragedy of the Emperor Charlemagne and the Marquis of Mantua' is ever performed.
R7769 TIL rescuers had to cut a (dead) woman in half with a chainsaw in order to amputate the leg of a young boy trapped in rubble of the collapsed I-880 overpass following the 1989 SF earthquake
WgpL TIL Most Iranian women don’t wear niqabs. The government once considered them to be a “badge of backwardness.”