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TIL Green Goddess salad dressing was created to pay tribute to actor George Arliss and his hit 1823 play, The Green Goddess

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a80L0 TIL that in "The Colbert Report," the full name of the fictionalized version of Stephen Colbert is "The Reverend Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World"
KYN99 TIL Of the 45 persons who have served as President of the United States, at least half have displayed proficiency in speaking or writing a language other than English. Of these, only one, Martin Van Buren, learned English as his second language; his first language was Dutch.
Oo6NR TIL that in 1937 the Hershey Company made a high calorie chocolate bar designed to taste "a little better than a baked potato" for the US Army so that soldiers would only eat it in case of real emergency
loPRN TIL DC Comics once created a superhero whose special power was his ability to detach his own limbs, his name: Arm-Fall-Off-Boy
VM6gk TIL, In 1887, a group of men added a name Susanna M Salter to the mayoral ballot of Argonia, Kansas, as a joke intended to humiliate women. Instead, she won over 60% of the votes and became America's first female mayor.