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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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4XwXb TIL: The Golden Gate Bridge's famed color, "International Orange" selected by architect Irving Morrow for aesthetics and for visibility in fog, won out over the US Navy's preferred color scheme. The Navy wanted it black with yellow safety stripes --the better for ships to see it.
yQLkw TIL that in July 2014, six sealed glass vials of smallpox dated 1954 were discovered by chance in a storage room in an FDA laboratory at the NIH in Maryland. Upon transfer to the CDC in Atlanta, two of the vials had virus which proved to be viable in culture. They were destroyed 7 months later.
gmV4 TIL that over 90 people volunteered to die in Operation Crossroads, the Navy’s first atomic test in the Bikini Atoll, including geriatrics, the suicidal, and one death-row inmate. All were, of course, refused.
OoLA1 TIL the US Senate has a desk called the Candy Desk, it has a drawer full of candy and the responsibility of the occupant is to distribute these to other members of the floor
7B5M TIL Masanobu Sato, World Champion Masturbator, masturbated for 9 hours and 58 minutes without ejaculating during the annual “Masturbate-a-thon”.