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TIL that Domino's Pizza stopped their "30 minutes or it's free" pledge after a major lawsuit that made it appear as if their drivers were reckless.

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PBZn TIL Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862 which created a system of land-grant colleges and universities that revolutionized higher education in the United States and helped the country become the scientific and engineering powerhouse it is today
5YlDD TIL that the reason most long term depressed people that "feel less", remember less and experience " blurred memory" is due shrinkage of the hippocampus.
XEewD TIL a 2013 BBC study found that 56% of pilots fell asleep while flying, and 29% had woken up to find the co-pilot also asleep.
x6No TIL NYC was the capital of the United States between 1789 and 1790.
R7LX1 TIL that the first case of child abuse case in the US was prosecuted in New York under an animal abuse law, because child abuse laws didn't exist.