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TIL you need to have a net worth of 7.5 million to open a Panera

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KOvM4 TIL A "Wellerism" is an expression that comedically uses a saying in the wrong situation, such as "We'll have to rehearse that, said the undertaker as the coffin fell out of the car." or "So I see, said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw."
R7vYw TIL The meter (metre) was originally defined to be one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris
16rbP TIL: when awarding the 1987 Nobel prize in chemistry to a dr. Donald Cram, the committee accidentally phoned up Donald Cram, a Californian carpet cleaner with the same name.
R7nx7 TIL An average house fly lives for about a month. A lot longer than the commonly thought 2 or 3 days.
b9AWZ TIL because the trees require year round watering, California's almond farmers are responsible for 10% of the states annual water demand: ten million acre-feet, or 3.25 trillion gallons.