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

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kJdw4 TIL That the first drilling rig to find gas in the UK North Sea, also collapsed 2 months later killing 13 people, making it the first accident in the North Sea, and was the worst accident until Piper Alpha.
l8rV TIL of the greatest flood the world has ever known - the Missoula Floods. It created the Scablands in WA in as little as 48 hours where at one point was the largest and most powerful waterfall in the history of the Earth.
nWmj7 TIL that Eiji Aonuma, deputy general manager at Nintendo and former project manager for The Legend of Zelda games, is in a brass band called The Wind Wakers
XEvaQ TIL A future Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force decided to become an aviation engineer when as a boy admired the American planes dropping sweets to him and other kids during the Berlin Airlift. Dr. Yarymovych is also credited for initiation of the Global Positioning System - GPS
WDKY TIL One of the most important Medieval innovations was the horse collar, which allowed horses to use their full strength to pull loads or to plow and which only came to Europe around 920 AD.