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TIL General Tso’s Chicken is an American dish. It was unknown of in China before it was introduced by chefs returning from the United States.

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d8nn9 TIL: In parts of the Caucasus Mountains highlands, some 1,000-year-old stone tower-fort homes built by the isolated Svan warriors are still being lived in. "The turbulent history of the region ensured that these fortifications remained in use long after similar defenses become redundant elsewhere."
00ay TIL The first man to fly a plane Orville Wright) & the first man to walk on the moon (Buzz Aldrin) were alive at the same time. Buzz was 17 when Orville died and his father was good friends with Orville.
pYJO8 TIL Sun Yat-sen's translator Dai Jitao had a son from an affair who he gave to Chiang Kai-shek for adoption to avoid scandal. The son, christened Chiang Wei-kuo, later led a Panzer division during Anschluss. He was called home to China to fight the Japanese just before Germany invaded Poland.
781dX TIL:Josefina Guerrero (August 5, 1917 – June 18, 1996) was a Filipina spy during World War II. Guerrero had leprosy and was an unsuspicious and effective surveillance asset for American allied forces.
KmEa TIL because Louis X of France died before his son was born, King John I of France is the only ruler of France to be king for his whole life. He only lived for 5 days.