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TIL Tipping in restaurants is originally a European custom that used to be considered a "Deeply Un-American" practice, stemming from racial and political issues, long before becoming entrenched in American life more than any other country.

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mr5v TIL the roomiest economy airline seats you can book today are narrower than the tightest economy seats offered in the 1990s
vPLMB TIL of Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard who is a king penguin residing in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-ranking penguin.
R7bK9 TIL in 532 AD 30,000 rioters were killed and half of Constantinople was destroyed in the Nika Riots, over a conflict with chariot racing.
Z8rdD TIL about the musical genius Bob Milne who has the ability to hear every instrument individually in 3 different orchestras playing 3 different symphonies in his mind at the same time.
evkE TIL that when preparing for the role of Gny. Sgt. Hartman in “Full Metal Jacket”, R. Lee Ermey wrote roughly 150 pages of insults