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TIL Jack in the Box serves boba at select locations

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69Opl TIL of Benjamin Axelrod, who snuck into America seven times between 1907 and 1909 as a stowaway on ships. He was eventually allowed into America, dying in Florida in 1973.
GYXe4 TIL The British town of Berwick-upon-Tweed was, due to a bureaucratic error, left out of the Crimean War Peace Treaty between Great Britain and Russia. Upon Berwick's eventual signing of a peace treaty 110 years later, then-Mayor declared: “Tell the Russians they can sleep easy in their beds.”
D1D5p TIL that the world uses 27,000 trees worth of toilet paper every day.
Brmd TIL Hummingbirds are continuously hours away from starving to death, and are able to store just enough energy to survive overnight.
ladB TIL that when hermit crabs encounter a new shell that is too big for them, they will wait around to see if another crab shows up to take it. They form groups of up to 20, holding onto each other in order from largest to smallest, each waiting to get into a larger shell that fits them.