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TIL that Aztecs raised Chihuahuas in order to eat them

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W76RB TIL about the small town of Swastika, Ontario. During WW2, the provincial government tried to change the town's name. The town's residents rejected this, stating "To hell with Hitler, we came up with our name first".
OVYY TIL: This floating radar dish has been deployed to North Korea to monitor their next missile test.
d7nj TIL Einstein considered himself an agnostic, not an atheist: “You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth.”
woLGP TIL The leader of the UK government is known as the prime minister. This was originally a term of abuse rather than a job title.
6EOmX TIL that actress Amanda Seyfried turned down the role of Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy because she thought ‘who wants to see a movie with a tree and a talking raccoon?’