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TIL that Chicago's Kasama is the world's first Filipino restaurant to be awarded a Michelin star.

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11B8 TIL that after NBC rejected the first pilot of Star Trek, Lucille Ball (from I Love Lucy) convinced NBC to give Gene Roddenberry’s show a chance.
VBwNp TIL narrative principle Chekhov's gun states that every element in a story must be necessary e.g., if you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following act it should be fired. Otherwise, don't put it there. Thus, I finally found the right word to express my frustration with Game of Thrones
r6b0 TIL Haribo released sugar free gummy bears that caused many costumers to have gastrointestinal distress. Turns out their sugarless sweetener, Lycasin/Malitol, can become a rather effective laxative in doses of 40g or more. Their 5lb bags contained a whopping ~2267g.
4X9Xa TIL US Marine Reservist Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid served in Operation Restore Hope (the setting of Black Hawk Down). His father, Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, was the opposition leader. One weekend in 1995 he didn’t show up to drill because he was busy taking over as warlord.
LkbRr TIL there are 5.6 sheep per human in New Zealand. The ratio was 15 sheep per human back in 2015 and since has been declining