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TIL there is a restaurant in tiny Union CT that gives books away to every person that dines there.

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ormA TIL that Herman Göring had a brother who blatantly and dangerously resisted the Nazi regime through acts of sabotage and forgery, and that one week before his death, married his housekeeper so that she could receive his government pension.
jZvn TIL - Most Dental drills are air-turbine powered and can reach speeds of 800,000 rpm
BrwKy TIL the "ultimate parasitic ant" spends most of its adult life clinging to the back of its host, laying two eggs every minute.
AnMx TIL that as the result of a diplomatic error, the Netherlands remained in state of war with a set of English islands for over 300 years. Upon signing a peace treaty in 1986, the Dutch ambassador joked that it must have been harrowing for the islanders “to know we could have attacked at any moment.”