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TIL In-N-Out Burger is owned by a girl who took over when she was only 23 years old.

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mx54P TIL the Bermuda Triangle isn't really some mysterious area of unknown dangers. In fact, it's one of the most heavily traveled shipping lanes in the world. Most of the mysterious "incidents" were found to be spurious, inaccurately reported, or embellished by later authors.
wLYl1 TIL that the U.S briefly banned sliced bread in 1943. During this time, a letter appeared in The New York Times from a distraught housewife saying, in part: "I should like to let you know how important sliced bread is to the morale and saneness of a household."
gMrQD TIL that due to the way a rotting apple releases ethylene (which accelerates rotting), one bad apple really does ruin the whole bunch
V6rB TIL that 14 years prior to Titanic tragedy, there was novel featuring the ‘biggest ship ever built’, an ocean liner called Titan, the “unsinkable”, which sinks after hitting an iceberg
NmEE TIL after Crude Oil, Coffee is the most sought commodity in the World.