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TIL that in 2013 a suicidal man was stopped from jumping off a bridge by offering him Pizza

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wkJ1 TIL: The money required to eradicate hunger for everyone in the world has been estimated at 30 billion per year…about as much as the world spends on the military every eight days.
m1lvO TIL Journey, one of the most-heard rock groups in history, started life as a Bay Area jazz fusion band
BgJAk TIL Dostoievsky's greatest joy was writing the character of 'Karazinov', in 'The Devils' (1872), a scurrilous portrait of his rival, the poet Turgenev. When a fire broke out on board a ship, Turgenev apparently rushed from one crewman to the next, screaming, "Save me! I am my mother's only son!".
rRDN0 TIL about the J-Cart for the Sega Genesis. It held not only the game data but also came with two additional gamepad ports. This effectively allowed four players to play simultaneously without any extra adapters.
woe9o TIL that Puff the Magic Dragon really was written as a children’s poem and isn’t a euphemism for smoking weed.