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TIL Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico

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m5Mo TIL that the Milky Way is currently in the middle of a absorbing another smaller galaxy, the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy.
epE5L TIL that some Paralympic fencers have FUCKING SWORDS FOR ARMS. How cool is that?!
kGp7 TIL MLB pitcher Justin Verlander, while in high school, agreed to give his friend .1% of his eventual signing bonus in exchange for $.50 so that he could buy a chocolate milk. His signing bonus ended up being over three million dollars.
VMb1p TIL that we owe the iconic Star Wars' opening text to Brian De Palma. After seeing an early cut of A New Hope, he strongly complained to George Lucas, calling the movie "non-sense". The idea for an introductive crawling text came from the ensuing exchange.
rRw51 TIL that the employees of Disney land worked in such terrible conditions they referred to the park as “Mauschwitz” until managers discovered the employee lingo and banned use of the word for being un-Disney-like. Within an hour the staff switched to “Duckau”