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TIL the night before Iraq invaded Kuwait there was a soar in pizza orders made by the CIA

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bQeZ TIL Starbucks is donating 100% of their leftover prepared meals to charity. They’ve been donating pastries since 2010, but refrigerated vans will now allow each of the 7,600 stores to distribute all the food that remains unsold at the end of the day while keeping it safe to eat
wkv7 TIL that the Belzec extermination camp is rather unknown because out of the approximately 600,000 people to be executed there, only one or two camp inmates survived WWII to tell the world about the camp.
YPev TIL that the “first Siamese twins” lived separate lives and would alternate every three days between their homes and families. They were only ¾ chinese.
Z8XYD TIL The largest Pyramid in the World is not in Egypt. It's actually located in Puebla, Mexico andis named the Great Pyramid of Cholula. It is an ancient Aztec temple with a base four times larger than Giza's, and nearly twice the volume. It's also hidden in a mountain.
Vgmk TIL: Thomas Jefferson wrote a book called The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth because he believed the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day.