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TIL Soaking up grease from a slice of pizza with a napkin saves you about 40 calories.

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JEo4 TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, “…the books [started] to show it after a while. ‘Misery’ is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
5YwAP TIL about John Horse & The Black Seminoles. Together they led the largest slave revolt in U.S. history, they created the largest haven in the U.S. South for runaway slaves, and they secured the only emancipation of rebellious slaves prior to the U.S. Civil War.
wLBdE TIL that Washington D.C. is not a state but a city and the capital of the United States of America due to Congress not having a permanent place to stay back in 1790 so they established a 100 square mile territory which would be marked as the District of Columbia.
mx5aE TIL that McDonald's Filet-O-Fish was created in 1962 for Catholics abstaining from meat on Fridays during Lent. According to McDonald's, a quarter of all its Filet-O-Fish sandwiches were sold during Lent last year.
jNEYM TIL of Gorillas Titus and Beetsme: they met and bonded as Juveniles and later created a rare bachelor group for 8 years while the duo had homosexual relations. After adding some females they drove of the other males and effectively shared power in what became the largest gorilla group in the world