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TIL Some Midwesterners eat cinnamon rolls with their chili.

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PNne TIL Zimbabwean president Mugabe celebrated his 91st birthday by dining on endangered wildlife, including two buffaloes, two elephants, one lion, two sables, and five impalas
xwl0 TIL in 1982 a U of TX student received a C for a paper he wrote in support of the ratification of a 1789 amendment to the constitution regarding Congress’s pay because it was deemed “unrealistic”. In response he started a campaign to ratify it, and 10 years later it became the 27th amendment.
QLja TIL When they return to Earth, astronauts have to fill out government travel vouchers as if they were on regular business trip. Link to Apollo 11 voucher in comments.
M7o6B TIL While MTV has filmed over 101 Unplugged performances, fewer than 30 of them have been released as albums.
OGZda TIL Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is considered by many to be the first computer programmer and her method describing an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers has been called the world's first computer program