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TIL Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.

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JYXpk TIL that the average national IQ correlates well with GDP per capita and other measures of development. This paper claims that higher cognitive skills of a nation in general, and more importantly, its intellectual class, contributes to making it a richer country.
Zglo TIL In 2008, Doritos beamed a 30-second advertisement into a planetary system 42 light years away, in collaboration with EISCAT Space Center in Norway.
DQN7g TIL Benedict Arnold’s crypt was repurposed into a kindergarten classroom and his headstone is a wall decoration.
YA8G TIL Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, son of the famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
woj4o TIL of Kamo Ter-Petrosian, an infamous leader of a Bolshevik gang. Kamo would often test newcomers by ambushing them and putting them through a fake execution. When a recruit revealed himself to be a spy, Kamo had him shot, then tore out the man's heart and showed it to other recruits as a lesson.