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TIL Tapatio hot sauce is actually American and is exported from the U.S. to Mexico.

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XEYyE TIL where cocktail most likely got its name. A horse with a cocked tail seemed to posses more vigor. Horse traders would add ginger and pepper in the horses' rectum to provide an added dose of spice. On conclusion one would pour an alcoholic drink for oneself flavoured with these common ingredients.
4Xbew TIL if the Queen pops her handbag on the table at dinner, it reportedly means she wants dinner to end within the next five minutes. If it goes on the floor, rumour has it, she's tired of the conversation and wants to be whisked off quickly by her lady-in-waiting.
yYOp TIL that Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk used to listen in on telephone and sex chatlines to find appalling, original stories for his writing.
oNbY TIL Five Men Agreed To Stand Directly Under An Exploding Nuclear Bomb (video included)
5VDEk TIL according to the customs of the Toraja people of Indonesia, the family of a dead person must sacrifice a buffalo. Families that don't already have one or too poor to afford buying a buffalo just assume their dead relatives are just "sick" until they can afford to sacrifice a buffalo.