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TIL as of 2011 the Catholic Church operates the world’s largest non-governmental school system

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OoEN1 TIL in 1826, a restaurant called Atwood & Bacon Oyster House opened in Boston in a building that was already more than 100 years old at the time. Today, it’s called Union Oyster House and is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in the US.
0dNPv TIL David Copperfield was once robbed at gunpoint -- but successfully performed an illusion to convince the robbers his pockets were empty when they weren't.
AN14w TIL Crosswalk "push to walk" buttons in cities like New York no longer control traffic lights, yet pedestrians keep pressing them because it feels like control
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vPLnD TIL that before WW2, there was another United Front between the CCP and the KMT against warlords in China.