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TIL Sikh temples provide a free meal, a safe place, or a temporary shelter to anyone in need regardless of native language, sexual orientation, or religious beliefs
wttw.com
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TIL When the Wii U failed miserably, the Nintendo CEO halved his own salary for half a year, instead of laying off his employees.
cnbc.com
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3 mos ago
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TIL the FBI ran a sting operation using a fake company to offer bribes to members of Congress that resulted in seven convictions.
fbi.gov
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3 mos ago
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TIL a man deleted his open source Javascript package from npm in 2016 and inadvertently caused service disruptions across the internet as the eleven lines of code were a dependency of many major software projects
nymag.com
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4 mos ago
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TIL Romans would bury their dogs in tombs and engrave them with epitaphs to remember them by
thedodo.com
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4 mos ago
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TIL lemons aren't naturally occuring. They are a cross between a bitter orange and a citron.
truthorfiction.com
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5 mos ago
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TIL millennial dads are spending 3 times as much time with their kids than their dads spent with them
mother.ly
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5 mos ago
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TIL identical twins don't have identical fingerprints
sciencefocus.com
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5 mos ago
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TIL German chocolate was invented in texas
allrecipes.com
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5 mos ago
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TIL Scotland's national animal is the unicorn
nts.org.uk
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5 mos ago
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TIL the 9/11 rescue dogs started to become depressed when they weren't able to find any living people. Rescue workers had to fake being rescued to boost their morale.
go.com
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6 mos ago
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TIL Russia has 11 timezones
hindustantimes.com
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6 mos ago
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TIL hot water freezes faster than cold water
quantamagazine.org
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6 mos ago
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TIL about Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, who leaked confidential documents and letters of the papcy and Catholic church in hopes of exposing what he saw as corruption in the Vatican's business dealings.
reuters.com
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6 mos ago
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