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TIL Domino’s Pizza cancelled their ‘30 minutes or less’ guarantee because of their drivers causing accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas on time, resulting in at least one fatality.

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WkOEY TIL Turkey granted women full political rights before many other nations. Founder of Turkey Atatürk said:"There is no logical explanation for the political disenfranchisement of women. Any hesitation and negative mentality on this subject is nothing more than a fading social phenomenon of the past."
QJeX6 TIL of Alfred Mehran who lived for 18 years at Charles De Gaulle (CDG) airport, Paris.
xYBw TIL: If you’re a man and pee on a pregnancy test and it’s positive, you probably have cancer.
yMPV TIL of a statistician who discovered the outside of a particular scratch-off lottery game was non random. He could correctly predict a winning ticket 90% of the time.
VMeOp TIL that the majority of modern British and Irish are descended from the people who first settled the islands after the Ice Age. All the later invasions by Celts, Romans, Saxons, Vikings and Normans did little to change the islanders’ DNA.