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TIL raw carrots may be as addictive as cigarettes.

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b9Zg4 TIL Garlic knots were first created as a way to reuse pizza dough scraps, and were invented at the first pizzeria to ever have toppings on their pizzas.
KKWw TIL archive.org hosts over 2000 MS DOS games that you can play right in your web browser for free.
n8Od TIL of Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in the entire Second World War. In 1942 he falsified his age to 18 to join the Army and until 1945 he participated in battles on Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio and Rome, and also in southern France and the Alsace region.
Pvkn TIL There is an Iranian custom called Taarof where people offer things they don’t really want to offer with the understanding they will be refused by people who really don’t want to refuse.
Zk6B TIL the founder of Macy’s, Rowland Hussey, who was a Quaker, is credited with inventing the price tag. Quakers believed it was immoral to barter - charging people different prices for the same product. Also, price tags made it easier to expand and quickly hire new sales people.