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TIL The origins of the cowboy tradition come from Spain, beginning with the hacienda system of medieval Spain. This style of cattle ranching spread throughout much of the Iberian peninsula, and later was imported to the Americas.

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5VMdp TIL Aboriginal cannibals preferred to eat Chinese people, because Europeans tasted too salty. They also disliked consumers of opium.
E1l7P TIL I learned that nobody in the Union army wanted to fire the Williams Cleaner Bullet. It was less accurate than the normal Minie', more expensive to manufacture and it did not clean the barrel at all. Soldiers just threw them away or kept them as a last reserve. The Bullet Nobody Wanted to Fire.
MeaVB TIL that according to the UN, Facebook played a "Determining Role" in a 2017 Genocide in Myanmar, where it is estimated that 24,000 died and 700,000 fled.
woKkJ TIL Most people try to steal/poach someone else’s partner at least once. And even if the poacher fails, their target starts to view their current partner as less attractive, as a result of the attempted poaching.
Z8JWD TIL Police almost arrested Gary Ridgeway, The Green River killer, years earlier, in 1983. A boyfriend of a victim had seen her get into his truck before she vanished. The next day, he went with her father and found it; it belonged to Ridgeway. The tip wasn’t enough to get police to arrest him.