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TIL many of the accient Greek and Roman statues were painted
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TIL Venice banned Kebab Shops to preserve the decorum and traditions of the city. Measures were made to stop fast-food restaurants that were incompatible with the city's heritage.
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TIL in 1954 a Japanese trawler was caught in the fallout of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, killing its radioman; his last words were “I pray that I am the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb.”
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TIL 30 Billion honey bees from around the US are shipped to California once a year to pollinate almond trees. They are then shipped to other parts of the country through the year for the same purpose.
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TIL an 86-year-old wrote an upbeat review for her local paper about a new Olive Garden. She was mercilessly mocked by the Internet. Anthony Bourdain thought she had a valuable POV on small town dining. So he published a book of her reviews.
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TIL that in 1994 a 75-pound bag of cocaine fell out of a plane and landed in the middle of a Florida crime watch meeting.