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TIL There's a Japanese restaurant where guests are served by employed monkeys

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nB6b TIL World War II bomb shelters underneath London are being converted to hydroponic gardens lit with wind-powered LEDs.
wowx1 TIL that US Pres. Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) drank himself to death after leaving office
78AXX TIL one of every five mammals living on the planet is a bat.
b9VDp TIL there is a species of sheep that survives completely on seaweed. on the island of north ronaldsay in scotland, a wall was built around the island to protect crops from sheep grazing, limiting them to the shoreline where they have adapted to survive.
xAX1 TIL Nestle’s enormous California (water) bottling plant is on an Indian reservation so they don’t have to adhere to government water restrictions during droughts or report on how much water they’re actually using.