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TIL Pat’s in Philly will let you bring your own bread, but they don’t have Swiss cheese.

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XENx6 TIL that in the USSR, when foreign music was banned, bootleg records were made on old x-rays pulled from medical trash. These were called "ribs" and "bone records".
Meb67 TIL this yellow-pigmented male northern cardinal is most likely a genetic mutation that renders the pigments the bird draws from foods making it appear with yellow coloration rather than red. This is called xanthochromism; in addition to cardinals, it has also been seen in rose-breasted grosbeaks.
Y7vZr TIL in the US only, the strength of the placebo effect is so high that drug companies have trouble getting new painkillers approved through clinical trials.
l7o8N TIL that, for close to a decade, Universal Pictures didn't know it owned the merchandising rights to the film Darkman (1990). It wasn't until toy-maker SOTA asked for a license to make a Darkman action figure that Universal finally looked into it and found out it had owned the rights all along.
Wkk5o TIL The largest beaver dam known to exist is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta, Canada and measures 2,790 feet (850 m) in length.