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TIL Due to enduring ‘another violent summer’ in 2016, the owner of D&C Pizza in Indianapolis is trying to reduce crime by giving a free extra-large-pizza to anyone who turns in a gun - no question asked.

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Y7m0x TIL In 2019, China experienced a severe pork shortage due to the African swine fever outbreak. As a result, some farmers bred giant pigs that weighed as much as an average adult male polar bear, or 1,100 pounds. These giant pigs were worth more than $1,400 each.
Z8r4a TIL of the "singing" Colossi of Memnon, two large statues of Pharoah Amenhotep III, which have been described throughout history as making low moaning, whistling, or blowing noises due to vaporizing dew escaping from cracks within the statues.
EnRX TIL that Thich Quang Duc, a monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the Catholic church in Saigon, remained motionless and never made a sound as he was burning alive. His heart remained intact afterwards. The photo of him burning alive won the Pulitzer prize.
mJgP TIL after French soldier Jean Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, despite him never having set foot in Sweden before. The House of Bernadotte rules Sweden to this day.
78897 TIL The Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego, restricts access to parts of its Dr Seuss archives and forbids photography of materials, even to researchers