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TIL Carbonara was originated during WWII due to US soldiers bringing powdered eggs and dehydrated bacon to Italy

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NNv1 TIL Over 40M people of Irish descent are in the United States, 8x more than the population of Ireland.
e0y86 TIL Kevin Carter, the photographer that received a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph he took of a starving boy and vulture in South Sudan ended up taking his own life in 1994 with this suicide note “haunted by vivid memories and killings & corpses...starving children...of trigger happy madmen”
gMAx9 TIL that the final words of President Antonio José de Sucre were: “F*ck, a bullet wound!” He’d been shot while riding in a jungle in Colombia. He was said to have been an educated gentleman who had never cursed until that day.
71dp TIL bed bug infestations are growing uncontrollably in the U.S. and there’s a website that lets you check if places you go are contaminated.
P11Zw TIL about Rattlesnake Kate, a Colorado resident who killed 140 of the serpents with a metal signpost in a single battle & later learned to collect venom to save lives. Her snake dress is on display in Greeley (where Al-Qaeda got its roots.. that's a different TIL)