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TIL Little Caesar’s makes only a .90 cents profit on a 5.00 hot and ready pizza. $3.50 goes to the ingredients and 60 cents for overhead

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Me197 TIL That learning to swim fully dressed and other water survival skills are part of a compulsory educational programme for kids in Netherlands due to a large number of canals and open water
loM1K TIL of Cherophobia, which consists of a person’s fear or anxiety to activities that could make them happy, often believing something bad would occur, that happiness can make them bad people or even that looking for it is a waste of time.
45Dw TIL that in 1973, the CIA launched a covert operation that overthrew Chile’s longstanding democratic government and replaced it with a military dictatorship rife with human rights violations.
gjW8 TIL Soviet scientists tried to create nuclear 7.62 mm bullets for AKM/PKM. They used californium-252 instead of uranium or plutonium. Each bullet had enough power to destroy a tank (100—700 kg of TNT equivalent)
Q799 TIL Evelyn Beatrice Hall is the one who said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”