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TIL gyros in Greece are made with pork or chicken, not beef/lamb

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b6j6N TIL about a 747 hijacking where the jet had to land in Algeria to refuel. The lead flight attendant actually had to buy 6,000 gallons of jet fuel on her personal credit card because the Algerians insisted on payment first
E1rXw TIL in 1859, during a massive solar storm, telegraph operators in Boston MA unplugged their batteries and were able to send messages to Portland ME using only the auroral current.
5VBnr TIL Eva Peron (Evita), wife of Argentina's president Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer at the age of 33.He never told her that she had cancer and was dying. Ironically, his first wife also died of cervical cancer at 28 yrs old. Doctors felt that he passed the HPV virus on to his wives.
69DBw TIL there's an Animals In War Memorial at Brook Gate, Park Lane (London, UK). It's a tribute to all the animals that served, suffered and died in the wars and conflicts of the 20th century. One of the inscription simply reads: “They had no choice.”.
JMw1 TIL that ‘Vanilla’ comes from the latin word 'Vagina’ due to the way the way the pod must be split open to expose the seeds (#3)