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TIL flour tortillas were invented by a Jewish sect living in Mexico (then a colony of New Spain) who considered corn to be non-kosher.

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epaGg TIL A poodle named Cachi fell 13 floors and hit an elderly woman, killing both instantly. In the course of events, a woman came to see the incident and was fatally hit by a bus. In addition, a man who witnessed her death had a heart attack and also died on his way to the hospital
8gwa TIL Shrapnel is named after a person.
R5pal TIL that of the 97 people on board the airship during the Hindenburg disaster, 62 survived.
v1v4D TIL that Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain on Earth if measured from base to summit (Mauna Kea in Hawaii is). Mount Everest is only the "tallest" in terms of summit altitude above sea level.
RXkj TIL That In the 1991 elections for the governor of Louisiana, voters had to decide between a corrupt politician, Edwin Edwards, and the grand wizard of the KKK, David Duke, with slogans like Vote for the lizard, not the wizard" and “Vote for the crook. It’s important.”