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TIL Miami is the only major US city founded by a woman.

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pjMG TIL that the French praised ‘Ratatouille’ for perfectly recreating the environment of a restaurant kitchen. One chef said, “When Colette teaches the young cook how you cut onions, how you cook vegetables in a pan, how you season everything — that’s it, that’s how we do it!”
5K4n TIL : That Han from Fast and Furious full name is ….. Han Seoul Oh -_-
W7Jmd TIL Caxias do Sul, Brazil is home to a makeshift slum built specifically for stray dogs and cats housed by a animal rights group. With a population of 1000s, it mimics the conditions the country's most impoverished live in, even monetary restraints have caused problems with properly feeding them.
Lk6od TIL that the term Banana republic was invented by the author O. Henry when he lived in Honduras, and described a politically unstable country dependent upon the exportation of limited-resource product.
PGbg TIL, the US Navy retired its nuclear cruisers because it was cheaper than to refuel them