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TIL the person who invented dumpsters name was dempster, and they where originally called Dempster Dumpsters

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N7VjN TIL IKEA started serving food in its stores because the owner Ingvar Kamprad learned that many customers were leaving without buying anything due to hunger. Over 1.2 billion hot dogs and 11.6 billion Swedish meatballs have been consumed since its opening.
w18W TIL That it was illegal for the British monarch to be Catholic, or even married to a Catholic until 2015.
epKLn TIL it’s illegal for civilians to wear camouflage in 11 countries, including Jamaica, Barbados, and Zimbabwe, to prevent them from being mistaken for military personnel or law enforcement.
NX6e1 Today I learned that there is a restaurant in New York that doesn’t employ professional chefs, instead they have every day a grandmother from a different country designs a menu that honors her native cuisine
nRb7 TIL that somewhere in the sea there are about seventy five battles per minute between colossal squid and sperm whales