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TIL Caesar Salad is Mexican Food

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awWeJ TIL that in Helsinki, Finland there is a Burger King with a sauna inside. And Paul Rudd and Richard Ayoade went and ate in it and can be seen on YouTube on Travel Man.
xa4o TIL giraffes graze against the wind because acacia trees react by releasing tannins which taste bad and inhibit digestion. This creates a chemical signal that prompts trees downwind to do the same.
yVD98 TIL that in Back to the Future (1985), the iconic DeLorean time machine was almost a refrigerator. The filmmakers scrapped the fridge idea because kids might try to climb inside and get trapped, so they chose a car instead.
b6y8j TIL An Alaskan town celebrates Independence Day by launching cars off a cliff
lEJ5 TIL water buffalo that graze on opium poppies become “docile as lambs” and withdrawn from the herd. After the harvest, they suffer from tremors and convulsions - withdrawal symptoms