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TIL Caesar Salad was invented in Mexico

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bNa9 TIL that last surviving witness to the Abraham Lincoln assassination lived long enough to be interviewed about it on television.
Kl44 TIL that in North Korea’s Prison Camps conditions are so bad that 20 to 25 per cent of the prison population dies every year [nsfw]
A41w TIL of the Jetsons/Flintstones theory. The theory states that The Jetsons live in the past while The Flintstones live in the future. Because of nuclear fallout people were forced to build a city in the sky, after the Earth recovered years later people reclaimed it, resulting in the Flintstones time
m1YpR TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person verified to have been both a dwarf and a giant.
VBrDQ TIL that Pope Celestine V resigned just 5 months into his papacy in 1294 because he never wanted the job and wanted to go back to his cave, he was chosen after a 2-year deadlock, felt overwhelmed by Vatican politics, issued a decree allowing popes to quit, and then used it to step down.