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TIL the bite from a Lone Star tick can cause a person to be allergic to meat.

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4kvN6 TIL that hard-shell tacos were invented in the US by Mexican-Americans. After noticing how popular they were in San Bernardino, Glen Bell was taught how to make the shells and then opened a taco stand there in 1951 that became the first Taco Bell.
kJb87 TIL that between 2010-2022, the mayor of Langkat kept 656 people as slaves on his personal oil palm plantation, where they were kept in cages in his backyard. They were only "discovered" after the mayor was caught for bribery. At least 3 people died from the torture they received.
0wvKp TIL that Boeing was banned from bidding on contracts for US spy satellites after one of their contracts went over budget by at least $4 billion before it was ultimately cancelled and given to Lockheed Martin.
pVab TIL the first movie made about the sinking of the Titanic was released only 29 days after the event. The lead actress was an actual survivor, and suffered a mental breakdown after filming.
l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.