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9YelX TIL that hamburgers are called hamburgers because they were invented in Hamburg. And not because they are burgers made out of ham, despite obviously being beef, like I originally thought.
71Lr TIL - There is an annual man vs. horse marathon in Wales, and humans have won it twice.
1aA78 TIL that the Soviet AA-2 Atoll missile was reverse engineered from a US AIM-9 Sidewinder after it became lodged in a Chinese MiG-17 without exploding. The lead Soviet engineer at Vympel said, the missile was a "university offering a course in missile construction technology."
166ND TIL there was an exponential increase in childhood cancer in Mexico due to the purchase of tons of milk from Ireland, which were contaminated due to the radioactivity caused by the 1986 Chernobyl accident.
VMMZD It depends on how well you want your brain to work