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TIL there is a restraunt in New Mexico named Tims Place. You can order breakfast, lunch, and hugs! The owner, Tim Harris, has Down syndrome and has given out over 40,000 hugs

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wLKW8 TIL Scotland has the highest percentage of cocaine usage in the world with around 1 in 40 scots using the drug.
JaZ1 TIL that since the Chernobyl disaster, the area inside the ‘exclusion zone’ has become home to hundreds of wild animals such as deer, owls, boars, bears and beavers.
8aK1V TIL that in order for Voldemort’s name to spell out to “Je Suis Voldemort” in the French translations of Harry Potter, they had to make his middle name ‘Elvis’
R5lJj TIL Tablecloths were designed to be used as one big, communal napkin during the Renaissance period. When they were first invented, guests were meant to wipe off their hands and faces on a tablecloth after a messy dinner party.
J15B TIL that a Soviet NKVD executioner personally killed 7000 Polish officers over a 28 day period with a pistol, working 10 hours per night and averaging a person every three minutes. He personally accounted for almost one third of the Katyn Massacre.