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TIL there is a restaurant in New York that doesn't employ professional chefs. Instead, every day a grandmother from a different country designs a menu that showcases her native cuisine.

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EgmD0 TIL that the one of the last major eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius prior to the destruction of Pompeii was around 1995 B.C, 2000 years before 79 A.D. It destroyed every bronze age settlement in the area. Thousands of footprints left behind by fleeing survivors can today be seen in the hardened flow stone.
Ok64 TIL A 90-year-old woman was trapped in her bathtub for 3 days and survived by drinking water from a rubber duck.
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Z878Q TIL that the U.S. Department of the Treasury accepts donations to reduce the U.S. debt, and that people actually donate
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