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TIL the taco’s origin is unknown, but it was popularized by a group of “available” Mexican women called “the Chili Queens”.

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lox17 TIL At 8 years old, during a chicken dinner with family,Jeffrey Dahmer expressed a curiosity to his father of how to bleach chicken bones. His chemist father was proud of his son’s scientific curiosity so he showed him how to safely bleach and preserve the bones, which he used on his later victims
xVppo TIL that while tracking a moving object is trivial, moving your eyes on their own without jerkiness is almost impossible.
LRrv TIL an epidemic of contagious laughter broke out in Tanzania in 1962, which lasted over six months and affected thousands of people
7rLgx TIL there are ten different indigenous languages still spoken today in the British Isles; English, Scots, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, Cornish, Manx, Angloromani, Shelta and British Sign Language
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