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TIL Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico

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mx7YM TIL available scientific evidence does not support claims that cupping therapy has any health benefits, but it carries a risk of burns, persistent skin discoloration, scars, infection, and may worsen eczema or psoriasis. It has been characterized as quackery.
n66G TIL that ramen, a notorious “poor person” food, was invented by a very wealthy person. He was also said to eat “unhealthy” chicken ramen every single day since its invention until he died (at age 96, 17 years above the average male Taiwanese lifespan) His 105th birthday is today.
VMY7D TIL of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American beaten to death with a baseball bat by two laid off Chrysler plant workers blaming the Japanese for their loss of jobs. They ended up receiving just 3 years probation and a $3000 fine
L08V TIL that in the mid-1990s homeless children in Miami developed a vast, elaborate, and consistent mythology that spread by oral tradition throughout the community as a coping mechanism.
Dvov TIL Richard the Lionheart had 3,000 captured Muslim prisoners (including large numbers of women and children) taken to a hill. There, in full view of Saladin and his army, they were beheaded and disemboweled. Even in an age of atrocities, this was an act of exceptional and shocking barbarity.