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Qnnp TIL Winston Churchill once said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.”
6EVPJ TIL that there was a Great Molasses Flood that occurred on January 15, 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts. A large molasses storage tank burst open and a huge wave of molasses flooded the streets around 35 mph, killing 21 and injuring 150.
mOjR TIL a man from Texas died after attempting to play Russian roulette with a semi-automatic pistol. He was apparently unaware that semi-automatic pistols automatically insert a cartridge into the firing chamber when the gun is cocked. He was posthumously awarded a Darwin Award.
nePK7 TIL about the biggest pizza ever created. It was 13,580 square feet and made in Rome, Italy, in 2012. The pizza was gluten-free and named “Ottavia” after a roman emperor.
J1Y9B TIL peanuts grow through a process called “pegging,” in which the “peg” of the plant penetrates the soil