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TIL Caesar Salad is Mexican Food

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VZ9B TIL Majel Barrett’s recorded voice is still used today by Union Pacific Railroad giving notification of train and railroad track defects.
lo1DB TIL that 7 years after the U.S. acquired of what is today Washington state, "Columbia" was originally given the name of the new territory in 1853. However, Congress changed the name to "Washington", arguing that people would easily be confused with the nation's capital, the District of Columbia.
xVgn5 TIL the musical "A Chorus Line" is based on true stories from Broadway dancers, and the character of Sheila was based on, and originally played by, Kelly Bishop (Lorelai's mother from Gilmore Girls). Furthermore, the story Sheila tells in the play about her father cheating on her mother was true.
neOZd TIL According to a survey, 43% of American Cardiologists are overweight to obese.
OowjL TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.