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TIL Pound Cake gets its name because there is exactly 1 pound of each ingredient

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WQv8 TIL that in 1999, US forces bombed a Chinese embassy, killing 3 ambassadors and injuring 20. The incident was blamed on outdated maps. China never accepted the US explanation, and it was later revealed that the CIA actually had accurate maps.
Z8dvB TIL President John Tyler, 10th president of the USA and born in 1790, has 2 living grandsons
b9x8Z TIL The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply and it gets its oxygen directly from the air
wvj6 TIL in a 1978 Tennessee state legislature race, one candidate murdered his opponent. Because he was not convicted before the election, his name had to remain on the ballot while his victim’s was removed, leading the murdered candidate’s widow to run a successful write-in campaign.
kOoyd TIL Hiroaki Aoki moved to NYC from Japan where he would work 7 days a week in an ice cream truck he rented in Harlem. Using the $10,000 he saved from the business, he convinced his father to invest in a four-table teppanyaki restaurant which would be named "Benihana" after the red Safflower.