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TIL that hot sand frying is a common culinary technique among street vendors in China and India for cooking chestnuts and peanuts.

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WDXd TIL that Shaq owns 17 auntie Anne’s Pretzel Shops, 40 24-Hour Fitness clubs, 155 Five Guys restaurants and 150 Car washes
8OBV TIL that dozens of well-connected Saudis, including relatives of Osama Bin Laden, left the USA a few days after 9/11, when most flights were still grounded. They left with the personal approval of top White House officials.
jNp6R TIL that men are much stronger than women in terms of hand-grip strength (90% of women in the study generated less hand-grip force than 95% of men for men and women aged 20-25)
waX6 TIL in 2005 an Oklahoma judge was caught using a penis pump and oiling himself up during criminal trials. Court employees reported hearing strange whooshing sounds, and thought the judge might be tying fishing lures underneath the bench.
4XDW6 TIL In 2012, a man was brutally stabbed while restraining a subway stabber who had killed 4 people. When police showed up they did nothing to treat the mans wounds or get him medical help. The courts later ruled that police have no legal obligation to protect or serve the public.