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TIL: An elderly lady who ordered pizza every day for 3 years missed her order 3 days in a row and was saved by a delivery woman

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0w8d1 TIL of Jean Lanfray, a labourer who murdered his wife and children in a drunken rage in Switzerland in 1905. His murders were blamed solely on the influence of absinthe, despite the fact that he’d drunk many other alcoholic beverages. It set off a moral panic, and Switzerland soon banned absinthe.
am5y TIL of “long egg”. Hard-boiled re-engineered eggs, 3 foot long (1 meter), used by the food service industry that yields a CONSISTENT amounts of yolk and equal size when sliced - also is easy to transport.
Me7BW TIL Salt Bae gets paid $325/steak to be a living meme... That's a $25,000 Rolex on his wrist
G64j TIL that over the last decades the Florida Manatee population has increased by 500% possibly removing them from the endangered species list
R7Dd9 TIL if you're having trouble at a Japanese Rail Ticket Machine, a secret hatch will pop open next to the machine and a helper will pop out of it to manually finish the transaction for you.