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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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mxMVy TIL that sailships aren't really moved by the wind blowing into the sail and pushing it forward. The curved shape of the sail creates a lift force acting forward, same the aerodynamic lift that makes an aircraft fly. The wind direction can be of almost any angle relative to the ship.
p8deb TIL about "lonely negatives," such as disgust, disheveled, inept and inert. These are words that, due to a prefix or suffix, appear as though they should have a positive root but none exists or it has vanished from usage.
x9Pk TIL the reason peanut butter doesn’t go bad is its aridity; with a moisture content of about 2%, it doesn’t contain enough water to support bacterial and fungal growth.
R5gm4 TIL that Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, a Japanese hiker survived 24 days on a mountain without food or water by going into a state of hibernation. Doctors believe this is the first known case of a human going into hibernation
vPPB TIL Mother Theresa caused thousands to suffer because she believed suffering “brought people closer to Christ” and was the source of many deaths because she refused to give people quality health care while receiving world-class health care for herself.