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TIL Olive Garden trains their staff in the art of “hospitaliano”, their made-up Italian word for hospitality

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OodQ7 TIL of Encephalartos woodii, a near-extinct tree with only a single surviving male specimen. Without any female specimens the only way to reproduce it is to clone the male.
BrW1x TIL that Larry Flynt has sent a monthly copy of Hustler to every congressional office since 1983, and members of Congress can't stop receiving the magazines—because a court agreed that it was within Flynt's right to petition the government under the First Amendment.
O4je TIL The most abundant mineral is 51% of the Earth but had no official name until 2014 because there was no way to get a natural sample from 400 miles beneath the surface
Wprd TIL a princess of Thailand married an American man she met in MIT. She relinquished her royal titles to do so, and they had 3 children together.
D14Nv TIL Canada has a crude oil reserve over 4x the size of America's. North Korea has none.