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TIL that the Caesar Salad was invented in Tijuana Mexico, not Rome, in 1924 by Caesar Cardini

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8aLpK TIL that pine trees can produce a soapy foam after a heavy rainfall, due to rain water dissolving chemicals from the tree bark as it flows down the stem of the tree.
57Ok TIL that after Haiti’s independence in 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, self-proclaimed Emperor of Haiti, ordered and carried out a massacre of the entire remaining French population of the island, numbering 3000-5000 people of all ages and gender.
gWp9 TIL: There was a movement of people in the late 1800’s called the “anarchists”; that effectively changed American labor policy by fighting injustice with extreme violence, rather than sitting in front of Wall Street.
a87o9 TIL that since 1976, the New York Yankees have maintained a strict appearance policy that states: “All players, coaches and male executives are forbidden to display any facial hair other than mustaches, and scalp hair may not be grown below the collar. Long sideburns and muttonchops are not banned.”
BrxKb TIL that Malaria is theorized to have killed half of all humans who have ever lived (Approx 50 Billion people).