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TIL the unique taste of NYC pizza is attributed to the city’s water

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wZXP TIL that vast amount of high-paying engineering disciplines in the US are overwhelmingly dominated by men, while the not-so-lucrative humanity/social/education disciplines are very much dominated by women; this career self-selection is thought to be behind the male-female pay disparity.
VMXym TIL in 1972, Nolan Bushnell founded Atari with a princely investment of $250. Within five years, the company was worth $28 million.
vPLbj TIL: In 2023, an infamous Mafia Hitman who was on the run for 16 years for killing people with a metal bar was discovered working as a pizza chef. His food became famous enough to be featured in the local newspaper which tipped off authorities.
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