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TIL Little Ceasers makes about 90 cents per five dollar pizza.

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bV84 TIL that in 1976 the mayor of Montreal declared before the Olympic games that “The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby.” He was wrong. Mismanagement and gross cost overruns left the city with $1.5 billion of debt that wasn’t paid off until 2006.
Keg9 TIL that in United States military history, more citations for the Medal of Honor have been awarded for falling on grenades to save comrades than any other single act.
RXej TIL of Nyarri Morgan, an Australian aboriginal man who had no contact with the Western world until he witnessed - with no context - an atomic test and its resulting effects
W7QW9 TIL oyster mushrooms are not just a source of food, they can also be made into mycellium, which in turns can be used to make bricks and house furniture. They can also be used to decontaminate the environment, for example to treat soil that had been polluted with diesel oil.
pYw8Z TIL humans have recently evolved new traits like the ability to free-dive, live in high altitudes, resist disease, lactase persistence, and others.