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TIL Newman’s own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.

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xp9k TIL The Shiba Inu breed of dogs almost went extinct during World War II
R71A6 TIL Universal Studios Florida was only supposed to have a Studio Tour attraction ported from its Hollywood counterpart. When Disney-MGM Studios was announced in 1985, USF was switched to a full theme park by using staged encounters from Hollywood’s Studio Tour and turning them into standalone rides.
p8JDb TIL About Karl Bushby who has been working for 20 years on walking around the whole globe on foot, in an over 36,000 mile long trek named ‘The Goliath Expedition’
pYnPe TIL that Fried Chicken was an expression first recorded in the 1830s, and frequently appears in American cookbooks of the 1860s and 1870s. Scottish frying techniques and African seasoning techniques were used together in the American South, and became increasingly popular after the Civil War.
nWxQd TIL about The Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel roller coaster designed as a euthanasia device to kill its passengers. The concept was conceived in 2010 and made into a scale model by Lithuanian artist Julijonas Urbonas, a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art in London. Urbonas, who ha