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TIL Caesar salads are named after Chef Caesar Cardini, not Julius Caesar.

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v0Ar TIL of Mercy Ships, cruise ships converted to hospitals that float the African coast treating patients at no cost.
BJme TIL of Jerusalem Syndrome, in which some previously sane religious tourists go into a psychotic religious fervor after arriving in Jerusalem. Symptoms include shouting out psalms, delivering sermons, and wearing hotel bed sheets like a toga.
J1gmB TIL former dictator of Turkmenistan Saparmurat Niyazov ordered the closure of all libraries outside the capital in the belief that all Turkmen are illiterate.
J1WgV TIL we lose 200-300 ML of water every night just from breathing while sleeping!
X04mj TIL that 13% of American households own backyard chickens