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TIL that in Australia, hot chips (french fries) are usually served with something called "Chicken Salt"

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P14lO TIL in 1952, more than 100,000 U.S. Army troops descended on Lampasas, Texas as part of Operation Longhorn, a military exercise that trained soldiers how to retake a town from communist invaders
M5Y8 TIL Richard Nixon entered politics by answering a newspaper ad from a wealthy Republican group of businessmen seeking a new inexperienced candidate to finance and support.
b694Z TIL When the US denied India supercomputers due to sanctions imposed after India's nuclear test, India made its Supercomputer "Param 8000" which proved to be the world's second-fastest computer defeating the USA. It slowly started eating th US market being 23 times cheaper than the US "CDC 6600"
rNRpo TIL about the existence of ice wine, wine made from grapes frozen on the vine, causing a sweeter, more concentrated grape juice to develop.
69X5X TIL about the Martyrs of Nowogródek, eleven Catholic nuns who sacrificed their lives to take the place of 120 Polish civilians condemned to die at the hands of Nazi Gestapo. Immediately after they prayed, the Gestapo suddenly released the civilians, & without warning, rounded up & executed the nuns.