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TIL when Taco Bell first opened in 1962, lots of customers were unsure how to pronounce "taco" often calling them "Tay-kohs" before the correct pronunciation became widely known.

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ne9D7 TIL that a 25 year old Kenyan man invented smart gloves that can convert sign language movements into speech.
78M7X Til that by 1910, 10% of tuberculosis cases were caused by raw milk consumption, and by 1938 25% of all food/waterborne disease was linked to unpasteurized milk, regardless of farm hygiene or symptomatic status of the animal. This predates factory farming.
KYmOR TIL The Weber Grill, a kettle grill design popularized in the 1950s, was first designed by a salesman at a metal works company. Looking for a way to protect food he was grilling from wind, he repurposed metal buoys his company was making to make a covered grill.
Eg9r7 TIL 4/20 was Hitler's birthday. I'll never celebrate it again.
GAJOJ TIL of the winter-over syndrome, which affects scientists working in Antarctica. Symptoms include depression, irritability, aggression, cognitive impairment and a state of hypnosis known as "antarctic stare"