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TIL there is a dish called Escamoles in Mexico made from ant larva that has been around since the Aztecs.

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yV558 TIL about James Jakob Williams: An African-American marine that - after fighting in the Second Barbary War (1815) - traveled to Greece where slavery had been abolished. There, he fought for the liberation of Greece from the Ottoman empire. He died in 1829: a free man, in a free Greece.
QPJ6 TIL that Saudi Arabia, which gave us 15 of the 19 September 11 hijackers, will soon get the coveted “trusted traveler” status from the Department of Homeland Security.
nW4V9 TIL in 1940 Swedish cryptographer Arne Beurling deciphered the Nazi's T52, a machine more complex than Enigma. This way, the Swedes knew about Operation Barbarossa before it began. Since they wouldn't reveal how this knowledge was attained, their warning to the Soviets was not treated as credible
QbRe TIL of Primitive Baptist Universalists, a branch of Baptists found in Appalachia known as “No Hellers” due “to their belief that Hell is actually experienced in this lifetime”.
0Qxy TIL that Martin Luther, the great German Reformation leader, in 1543, wrote a 65,000 word treatise called “On The Jews And Their Lies” in which he argued that jews should be shown no mercy or kindness, and that “these poisonous worms” should be expelled for all time.