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TIL: New Mexico was actually named 223 years before the country of Mexico was established.

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9dDG TIL Péter Zwack, escaped the Communists in 1948, was granted US entry just because he had the Zwack recipe for Unicum, the National Shot of Hungary. After 40 yrs went back, bought the factory from the State, became Hungarian Ambassador to the US. The State owned factory had been using a fake recipe.
QJMd TIL the diet of Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station, full of jellied fish, borsch, and goulash, caused their shit to be so thick it kept clogging the $19-million space-toilets
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