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TIL that German chocolate cake was invented in Texas

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1aRGW TIL That in the Ukrainian language, the word Chernobyl: "чорнобиль" means wormwood. In the Book of Revelation, Wormwood is the fallen star that poisons the waters of the earth.
rNAvw TIL Mississippian Native Americans had a cosmological concept similar to Norse mythology, complete with a World Tree
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mxYjM TIL That in March of 1955 (9 months before Rosa Park's famous bus incident) 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did exactly the same thing.