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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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Y711W TIL A downtown Vancouver mall invites individuals with nowhere to go to sleep on the property overnight overnight and use its facilities when it opens its doors early in the morning. Night-shift employees conduct life safety checks, with first aid and mental health training
NVrb TIL that in 1961 a B52 broke apart over Goldsboro, NC while carrying two fully armed 3.8 megaton thermonuclear bombs. One fell to Earth, breaking apart. The other went through 5 of 6 steps needed for detonation including deploying its parachute and charging its detonation capacitors.
QJ4Ze TIL "Gym" is "jõusaal" in Estonian language and it's direct translation would be "Hall of Strength".
M7OJK TIL: Fossil fuels such as oil do not come from dinosaurs
Mev0m TIL about the battle of bamber bridge 1943 an out break of racial violence between black and white american military personnel due to the white MPs trying to enforce jim crow laws the 3 pubs in the town responded by putting up signs that said black troops only