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TIL a Pirate named William Dampier was the first to write down a recipe for making Guacamole in English.

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B9bk TIL that a woman jumped from a moving car after seeing a spider on her shoulder. The 9 year old passenger attempted to stop the car, hit the gas, and collided with a school bus.
Z8eDB TIL In 2016, Wall St hedge funds uncovered a scandal in the Georgia Chicken Index, and may have uncovered price fixing by Big Chicken
4k4dN TIL hydrogen cyanide, more commonly know as Zyklon B, has been detected in the interstellar medium (space) and in the atmospheres of red giants.
yl7e TIL in 2013 a father in Tennessee was arrested for picking up his children from school on foot. The school had a policy that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus.
ypbe TIL the Hindenburg Zeppelin, named after the late German president Paul von Hindenburg, was almost named Hitler but was refused by Adolf due to his dislike of large aircrafts. He later said he was glad the aircraft didn’t share his name after the famous Hindenburg Disaster of 1937.