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TIL In 2004, Pizza Hut fired a delivery driver who shot and killed a robber while on the job.

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BbAL TIL of Theophrastus Phillipus Auroleus Bombastus von Hohenheim, a physician from the 15th century who said “All things are poisonous and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not poisonous”. He is regarded as the father of toxicology.
QVgE TIL of the frequency illusion (also known as the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon),the phenomenon in which people who just learn or notice something start seeing it everywhere.
941r TIL that according to the ‘Copyright Act 1911’ The British Library must receive a copy of every item published or distributed in the United Kingdom (including pamphlets, magazines, newspapers, sheet music and maps) in a practice know as 'legal deposit’, which can be traced back to at least 1610.
WlYA TIL Adolf Hitler survived over 20 documented assassination attempts mostly from people who served him
j64LN TIL that the rent in the German town of Fuggerei hasn't been raised in 500 years and remains 0.88 Euros for an entire year