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TIL Spaghetti Marinara wasn’t invented until the New World was discovered, since tomatoes came from the Aztecs. Before that, pasta was eaten plain with no sauce…with your hands.

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4Loa TIL That when the Polk County, FL sherrif was asked why a suspect was shot 68 times, he replied “That’s all the bullets we had”.
YnMA TIL that it was believed if a man had no gag reflex he was gay. In some cases if a man admitted to being gay in the military, but gagged during the test, he wouldn’t be released.
LbNv TIL NFL football offensive lineman John Urschel has been published in several complex mathematics journals.
ZpkjG TIL that in 1983 a term was coined for worker ants of certain species that can have children but are not queens, derived from γάμος (gámos) and ἐργάτης (ergátēs), the term in english is ‘Gamergate’.
g6Dy TIL that Ice-T is responsible for the infamous line “… I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain’t one”, not Jay-Z.