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Til that at the United States Naval Academy, “General Tso’s chicken” is served in the main mess hall, as “Admiral Tso’s Chicken”.

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BnEx TIL that Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” is why we say “Merry Christmas” today. The phrase had been around before, but when the book was an instant hit in 1843 it popularized it right at a time when Christmas began to establish as an annual tradition again, so the phrase stuck.
p85Kb TIL stairs go counter-clockwise because of castle defenses. Castle were defended from the top down and since most people are right-handed it gave an advantage to be able to hold the railing with your left and the sword with your right.
pYWEG TIL a man survived a gunshot wound to the head and managed to carry on life as normal with the bullet in his head, even resuming his previous job
BgYBK TIL about Superior Canal Dehiscence Syndrome which can cause, among other symptoms, patients to be able to hear their own eyes move.
8gJb TIL that there is a card game called Mao in which new players are told only “the only rule you may be told is this one”, which means that new players have to discover the rules by themselves. The aim of the game is to be the first to get rid of all the cards in his hands without breaking any rules.