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TIL that Tex-Mex has surpassed Italian as the most popular food genre in the United States

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WkP18 TIL that China poured more concrete in the 3 years after 2010 than the US did in the entire 20th century.
Y94G TIL there are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the U.S., with 30,000 of them thought to be in New York City. One Irish-born neighborhood in the Bronx is estimated at having 40% of its immigrants as undocumented.
JYKvv TIL about Elizabeth McWilliams, a nurse's aid who took care of influenza patients in 1918. She worked tirelessly for patients before contracting the illness herself and dying. Her last words were "I am happy because I've tried to be a real American."
wo6vY TIL: That in 1974, a man performed a highwire walk between the Twin Towers of the WTC in New York. Philippe Petit, a street artist from Paris, took 6 years to plan what he called "le coup" (heist). The feat was later described as the "artistic crime of the century".
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.