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Me9v8 TIL That Steak Tartare gets it's name from a 13th century myth that Mongols (called Tartars at the time) would ride with meat under their saddles to tenderize it, then eat it raw. Though the story was false and the chronicler who popularized it had never even encountered Mongols himself.
0w51M TIL that 26 of the 50 states of the U.S. are named after Native American tribes.
OoOEa TIL about the Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which protects all of the other human rights that aren't mentioned in the Constitution.
a8b9 TIL: A series of hieroglyphics exists on Easter Island which remain untranslated
KY89B TIL that the genetic traits that helped people survive the Black Death in the 14th century are linked to autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease today, showing how a historical pandemic shaped the evolution of human immunity genes.