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TIL Ceaser salad was named after Ceaser Cardini and not Julius Ceaser…

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6mYW TIL almost everyone in Movie 43 was manipulated into being involved in it and many tried to get out of it
d8Med TIL there are multiple republics within Russia with their own governments and ethnicities including the Mari El folk who are one of the last remaining strongholds for practicing paganism.
woewY TIL the famous grand staircase of the Titanic has no known photos; and that the pictures that depict it are actually of the RMS Olympic's grand staircase, as they are hypothesized to be similar.
yVlQl TIL the @ symbol was invented in 1536. 435 years before email.
9YVrM TIL about Winston County, Alabama, which during the American Civil War attempted to cede from the Confederacy and become a free republic, as the lack of any plantations and resulting rarity of slaveholders in the region gave the locals little reason to sympathize with the rebel cause