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TIL that "Al Pastor" was neither the name of a famous Mexican chef nor the name of the owner of a well-known taqueria.

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J18Y8 TIL of "boosting", where disabled athletes with spinal cord injuries can boost their performance by deliberately breaking one of their toes
bbQE TIL of Stanley Bender who WALKED towards enemy machine gun nests and killed their occupants after standing on a knocked out tank for 2 minutes to scout out their positions
m1JbP TIL that while sloths only poop about once a week, it is responsible for 50% of all their deaths as this is the time where they are vulnerable to predators
OGAWX TIL JFK's older brother Joseph was being groomed as a presidential candidate when he was killed in a top-secret flying mission in WWII
e94 TIL James Cameron had the idea for The Terminator from a nightmare he had about a chrome exoskeleton with red eyes chasing him.