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TIL that German Chocolate Cake is not from Germany, but named for it's creator, Sam German.

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4k6Ka TIL Kola Coca was developed in Spain in 1880. A year after Kola Coca won an award in the US, Coca-Cola was introduced.
nDZW TIL that Vicki Lawrence in high school wrote a fan letter to Carol Burnett noting their close resemblance. Burnett—who was looking for an actress to play her younger sister for a new show—hired Lawrence, beginning her long television career.
Mxv8 TIL that the Soviet Union designed a machine gun with such a recoil that it would damage the plane it was mounted on. Fuel tanks would rupture, parts would fall off, and electronic circuits would take damage. At least three crashes can be attributed to just using the gun.
Brnvy TIL: A bronze sculpture at handsome Victor Noir's grave shows him prone & dying after a lost duel. Age patinated the metal to a green-brown color except on his lips and his (um) bulge --which gleam! They shine from constant contact by the superstitious who seek good luck by (ahem) "remembering" him.
OGLLa TIL Princess Alice of Battenberg, the mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II, organized soup kitchens and orphanages during the Nazi occupation of Greece. She would give away her own food to people on the street and she hid Jews in her home. She was also born deaf.