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TIL German chocolate cake doesn’t come from Germany. The cake took its name from an American with the last name of “German.”

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ArE7 TIL That Spy Kids 1-4, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Machete, and Planet Terror are all based in the same Universe.
kWk5 TIL the “proof” scale for alcohol was created by 16th century British sailors to describe the strength of their rum rations. Gunpowder soaked with less than 100 proof rum would not burn and was considered unacceptable.
ANJan TIL Horse semen is the most expensive liquid
ANpKl TIL that in 1991, U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Mike Basham learned that Salomon trader Paul Mozer had been submitting false bids in an attempt to purchase more treasury bonds than permitted by one buyer during the period between December 1990 and May 1991. Salomon was fined $190 million.
xJog TIL: Ernest Rutherford once said, “All science is either physics or stamp collecting.” He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908.