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TIL that eating horse meat, while relatively common in Continental Europe, is seen as taboo in English-speaking countries

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mrEo TIL that pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass, as they have for hundreds of years, on lake Titicaca
R7JB9 TIL Mad Magazine received a notice of legal action in 1980 from Lucasfilm over its parody of The Empire Strikes Back. Mad sent back a letter they had on file from George Lucas saying how much he loved the parody and the lawyers were never heard from again.
rRogM TIL FDR is the only physically disabled person to be US President. Paralysed from the waist down, ramps for his wheelchair were installed at the White House. This was hidden from the public. In speeches he used his head to make gestures because his hands were gripping the lectern to remain upright.
ADRBo TIL The 1936 Nobel Prize for Physics went to Carl D. Anderson for the discovery of the positron. While a graduate student at Caltech in 1930, Chung-Yao Chao was the first to experimentally identify positrons through electron–positron annihilation, but did not realize what they were
XE1ZQ TIL Unicorns existed at one point. Called a Siberian Unicorn, they may have lived among early humans. They are estimated to have gone extinct around 29,000 years ago.