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TIL broom bristles with deliberately frayed tips to better sweep fine dust are known as "flagged"

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yQ4EV TIL Ignacio "El Nacho" Anaya was a Mexican executive chef and restaurateur who invented nachos in 1940.
xVOeo TIL about about the 1918 pandemic morbidity: The first wave hit the poor, the second wave hit the rich
ZgYB TIL an 80 year old woman landed a plane successfully after the pilot suffered a heart attack mid-flight.
9jpB TIL When George Foreman was asked why he named all 5 of his sons “George” he replied “Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield…you let them hit you on the head and see how many names you can think of”
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