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TIL: Nashville Hot Chicken was originally intended to be bitter revenge on a cheating husband. But it back fired because he loved it.

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LQvOQ TIL about John Parsons, an Ohioan criminal who escaped from prison for three months using a rope made out of bedsheets, newspaper and toilet paper. In the time between his capture he lived in the wilderness in a small shack, and planned to go to Canada.
4XRDR TIL Pets can be allergic to human especially cats, just like we can be allergic to them.
neKMo TIL that the name Dennis derives from Dionysus, name of the Greek god of the grape-harvest, winemaking and wine, of fertility, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity and theatre
VBpD0 Today I learned about Henry Paget, who was not only the 5th Marquess of Anglesey, but also a noted Butterfly Dancer and crossdresser
P1e4E Today I learned the power symbol we see on computers (a circle with a line on the top) is a combination of the number zero and one, replicating the binary state a computer can be in: on or off.