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TIL Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico

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xVYPo TIL of Boudica, a Celtic queen who led a revolt against Roman rule in ancient Britain in A.D. Boudica’s forces had massacred some 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons and though her rebellion failed, she is celebrated today as a national heroine and an embodiment of the struggle for justice.
QJblE TIL that Ed Hardy was a tattoo artist, tutoring under the famous Sailor Jerry, before striking out on his own and eventually licensing his name to clothing apparel.
rRgv0 TIL of Beate Uhse, a stunt pilot and one of a handful of woman who flew in the Luftwaffe. She landed in a besieged Berlin to rescue her infant son, escaping by flying extremely low, narrowly evading flak and Allied aircraft. After the war, she created a chain of sex shops and became a millionaire.
NX6Y6 TIL That during the Civil War, there were times when billiard results received wider coverage than war news.
vP16D TIL that the given (first) name of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto (the Japanese Admiral who devised the attack on Pearl Harbor and much of Japan's success in the first part WWII) means the number "56" - his father's age when Isoroku was born.