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TIL A free kitchen operated by volunteers in India serves 100,000 hot meals a day, and has been for over 300 years.

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VBO6m TIL that during the 1980 Okęcie plane disaster passengers were found to have been holding onto their seats so hard, that it led to severed muscles and tendons unrelated to the damage caused by the crash itself.
YpxEv TIL that in the 1920's newly hired engineers at General Electric would be told, as a joke, to develop a frosted lightbulb. The experienced engineers believed this to be impossible. In 1925, newly hired Marvin Pipkin got the assignment not realizing it was a joke and succeeded.
8amoa TIL it would be possible to restore the atmosphere of Mars by placing a giant magnet between the Sun and Mars
ADRPw TIL "Jump Jim Crow" is a song & dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth (T. D.) "Daddy" Rice. The term Jim Crow had become a pejorative term for African Americans by 1838 and from this the laws of racial segregation became known as Jim Crow laws
0we1A TIL the movie studio responsible for The Hangover halved director Todd Phillips' $6.5m fee due to nervousness no big actor was attached to the film. Instead, Phillips requested a cut of the profits which netted him close to $70m.