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TIL that there is a cafe in Christchurch, NZ, that delivers food from the kitchen to customers in pneumatic tubes.

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78e4P TIL the state parliament of Bremen, Germany, is called the Bürgerschaft
1Y4O TIL Jerry Parr was inspired to join the Secret Service after repeatedly watching Ronald Reagan’s 1939 movie “Code of the Secret Service”. In the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, he was the one who saved his life.
km4 TIL Iceland was officially treated by UK as a terrorist country in 2008.
MeVRa TIL in 2010, a Kansas State University professor went on a Twinkie diet, where he ate mainly Twinkies, Oreos, and Doritos to prove to his students that calorie counting is the important part of losing weight, not nutritional content. He lost 27 pounds in 2 months.
aklb TIL that the song “Little Green Bag” made famous by “Reservoir Dogs” was originally titled Little Greenback and the lyrics sung throughout are “Little Greenback”. Somebody misprinted the title but the band accepted the name and it’s stuck.