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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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N7e58 TIL Despite the term 'blood donation', the blood market is actually a multi billion dollar industry and blood given for free by donors is then sold on the open market for profit for as much as $600 per pint, a cost passed down to patients.
n7xP TIL Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech is owned by CBS and it is illegal to distribute it
OoB84 TIL that if you order a brand new Volvo, Volvo will fly you to Sweden all inclusive, to let you drive your new car and explore Sweden, before they ship it to the USA!
yQmWl TIL that the AT&T stadium in Arlington, Texas changes the gender signs on bathrooms based on the gender makeup of a crowd. This allows them to provide more female or male bathrooms depending on the event. It also prevents long lines for bathrooms.
OWBe TIL of WW1 Casualty/Mercy dogs. Dogs trained to find wounded or dying soldiers on the battlefield that also carried medical supplies so an injured soldier could try to treat himself (whilst more gravely wounded soldiers would seek the company of a Mercy dog to wait with them whilst they died).