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TIL that you check out people instead of books At the Human Library. Instead of checking out a book, you “borrow” a person who has stories to tell gathered from a unique life experience for half an hour.

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kOEpm TIL American Airlines saved $40,000 a year by removing one olive from each salad in first class and Northwest Airlines saved $500,000 a year compared by cutting their limes differently.
4OWX TIL there is a Kappa Kappa Kappa (KKK) fraternity that is older than the Ku Klux Klan
R5K1w TIL about the 1st Special Service Force, aka the “Devil’s Brigade” – a US-Canada joint unit composed during WWII and the first modern special forces. They fought and died together during the most dangerous allied deployments of WWII, and suffered a casualty rate of up to 77%.
VMon0 TIL The Silent Generation (people born 1925-1945) did not produce any United States Presidents
0d5y5 TIL that On average, a Hippopotamus can run at speeds of around 19–28 miles per hour (30–45 kilometers per hour).