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TIL today is National Cheese Pizza Day
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TIL of the Cavan Orphanage Fire in which 35 children died because the nuns wouldn't let firemen in the building due to the children's "state of undress"
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TIL Romanian prisoners would receive reduced sentences if they wrote a book.
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TIL that the last surviving wife of a Civil War veteran died just 6 months ago. They married in 1936 while she was 17 and he was 93. This practice was common so that young women could receive the veteran's Civil War pension ($73.13/month). She died in December 2020 at the age of 101.
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TIL The Marinara in Marinara Sauce refers to the Mariners returning from the new world with their new fruit: Tomatoes.
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TIL There's a huge difference between barbed wire and razor wire (Razor wire uses literal razors in it)