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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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gMxgL TIL America invaded Russia in 1918 and attacked forced of the Red Army, leading to poor relations for some time between the two nations
x6gXD TIL the folktale "The Smith and the Devil" found in the Grimm Brothers' Compilation of tales was traced back to Proto-Indo-European roots in the Bronze Age (6000 years ago) with "high certainty"
Y8Md TIL: In Soviet Union during 1991, voting “none of above” led to new elections with new candidates in 200 races. Boris Yeltsin later said the “none of the above” option “helped convince the people they had real power even in a rigged election, and [it] played a role in building true democracy.”
gMBLW TIL that there was a war fought over the shooting of a pig, called the Pig War, between the US and Britain.
p87LQ Today I Learned That London Has A Fairly Large Population Of Wild Parrots That No-One Knows The Origin Of