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TIL The inventor of the "Salisbury steak" was the original carnivore diet influencer

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K9y6 TIL the length of horse hair is strongly related to the amount of sunlight it gets.
VvV8 TIL: A Salt Mining Company in Turkmenistan Uses a Mining Machine That Continuously Loops Around the Salt Pond. Each Loop Takes 25 Years To Complete.
wLYWo TIL that technically there is no city named Tokyo. Tokyo is a prefecture, something like a state, and not a city. Also, there is no city named Tokyo inside of Tokyo Prefecture.
7gO TIL that the Ancient Olympic Games were held for over 1000 years from 776 BC until 394 AD, when the last emperor of the Roman Empire suppressed the Games as part of his effort to end all “pagan cults and practices” and impose Christianity as a state religion.
8e1N4 TIL that Hitler had absolutely no reason to declare war on the USA