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TIL that the Caesar salad was invented by a Mexican chef named Caesar.

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YpWJA TIL In 1851 Chess grandmaster Adolf Anderssen won a game, later dubbed “The Immortal Game” on the 23rd move after sacrificing his Queen, both of his Rooks and one of his Bishops.
LYbd TIL there is a spider that builds larger fake spiders and hangs them in its web
6EQmm TIL that in 2008, Tim McLean was beheaded and cannibalised while riding a bus in Canada. The perpetrator, Vince Li, spent seven years in mental hospital, and was released in 2015, to a group home. He was granted a discharge in 2017. One of the first officers on the scene later committed suicide.
7r7rO TIL in Scandinavia the Kiruna to Narvik electrified railway carries iron ore down a steeply graded route. On the way down the trains generate large amounts of electricity by regenerative braking, which is sufficient to power the empty trains back up the track and pump excess energy into the grid.
P1aYG TIL of the K-ships -- a class of armed blimps used by the US Navy during WW2 for anti-submarine warfare operations against German U-boats. Only one K-ship was lost due to enemy action when the K-74 was shot down by machine gun fire from the submarine U-134 on the night of the 18th of July 1943