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TIL America’s “big 4” rival pizza chains - Domino’s, Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, and Little Caesars - all but their cheese from the same man: James Leprino. He sells 1 billion pounds of cheese each year.

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YpwNG TIL about Joe Simpson, who broke his leg descending a mountain and was lowered off the mountain by his climbing partner Simon Yates. He ends up falling off a cliff and into a crevasse after Simon is forced to cut the rope. He survives and crawls 8 miles to safety. Better story in link.
keL1 TIL the word crackpot came from poor English people who went crazy from drinking tea steeped in cracked ceramic pots that had lead cores.
Joll TIL female elephants are known to masturbate one another with their trunks (observed only in captivity)
Q4a TIL the transplanted lungs didn’t come from the Aurora Colorada victim
pa7A TIL that Israel attempted to bomb American and British civilians in Egypt and blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood in order to destabilize and occupy the country. Israel denied the entire affair for 51 years, but then awarded the Israeli participants in 2005.