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TIL that egg rolls are an American invention, but spring rolls are authentically Chinese.

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kyRE TIL in 1958, the Chinese captured a US Sidewinder missile just four days after it was introduced into combat when it got stuck in a Chinese jet during a dogfight with Taiwan aircraft. It was reverse-engineered into the Soviet AA-2 Atoll (K-13) missile and used against US planes in Vietnam.
gE0L TIL a man in Detroit bought a house next to his ex wife’s just to erect a giant middle finger statue for her to see everyday.
wLnNY TIL that as a teen, the future serial killer Richard Ramirez got his first job working at Holiday Inn. While working there, he assualted a guest, but was caught and beaten by her husband. As they were traveling, the couple declined to press charges. Ramirez was then fired from his job.
R7En8 TIL that in 2013 the United States bombed the island of Guam with 2,000 dead mice stuffed with painkillers to kill the Brown Tree Snake which is an invasive species on the island. The snake got there by accident in the 1950s on a shipping vessel.
R7PAw TIL about the Potato Paradox, a counter-intuitive math calculation that states: If you have 100 lbs of potatoes made of 99% water and dehydrate them to be just 98% water, they would then weigh only 50 lbs.