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TIL an 86-year-old wrote an upbeat review for her local paper about a new Olive Garden. She was mercilessly mocked by the Internet. Anthony Bourdain thought she had a valuable POV on small town dining. So he published a book of her reviews.

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W7dld TIL that nuclear bomb survivors in Japan (Hibakusha) were extremely societally discriminated against when searching a spouse or a job, due to the public considering them contagious or “damaged”.
x60v0 TIL about Capt. Ben Salomon, a US Army dentist who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for defending wounded soldiers from hundreds of Japanese attackers at the Battle of Saipan (1944)
wME8 TIL in 2005 a glitch in World of Warcraft allowed a plague to spread in the game leading non-infected players to abandon cities while those infected were forced into quarantines. It was later studied by epidemiologists to see how real life people would react to a pandemic.
ORrR TIL 69% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts and 34% have no savings at all
awYjA TIL The French People Called The Austrian Queen Of France ‘Austrian Woman’ Because In French It Would Be Made To Sound Like Bitch (Autrichienne = Austrian, Chienne = Bitch)