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TIL in countries that don’t have “ranch” dressing, that flavor is often described as “American flavor” when used in snack foods.

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NXrjN TIL Whacking Day, a yearly event depicted in The Simpsons where the townspeople kill snakes, was a real event in Eastchester, New York from 1665 onwards. Records stated: "That one day every spring be chosen for the destroying of rattle snakes."

8aQD8 TIL: Friday the 13th occurs on an average of once every 212.35 days, but the next one is 427 days away, in September of 2019, being more than double the average.

O98e TIL of a bank in Italy that holds their wealth in cheese rather than currency

Xkdr TIL that in the midst of the Vietnam war the dead body of Ho Chi Minh was secretly transported to a jungle cave, where it was embalmed by Soviet experts.

Awgo TIL The only known armed German military operation on North American soil in WW2 was the installation of a covert weather station in northern Canada. It was not discovered until 1977.