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TIL Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico

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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.”
wLV98 TIL that cats can successfully receive blood donations from dogs
4k6yo TIL that nerves can be grafted and spliced like wires, fixing damage to muscle control or pain
8a7GX TIL in the 1960's, The Catholic Church in Malta declared that voting for the Labour Party was a mortal sin, and voters were refused absolution, last rites and burial in sacred grounds, and sometimes were refused by employers
oR90o TIL A sturgeon's sex can't be reliably determined until 5 years of age, which leaves caviar farms with the significant expense of inadvertently raising males.