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TIL that many restaurant food poisonings occur due to uncleaned ice machines, not actual food

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BgaEK TIL Pan-Am's first Round-the-World flight was unplanned. The flight's return journey via Hawaii was cancelled after Pearl Harbor was attacked, and with the help of Auckland's library system, a route was plotted to return to America via Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Congo, and Brazil.
GALM5 TIL in 2007, Hamburg Mannheimer International (HMI), now part of Munich Re, held a party in Budapest with 20 prostitutes to reward 100 of its best salesmen
0w7Mp TIL King Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines.The wives were described as foreign princesses, including Pharaoh's daughter and women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon and of the Hittites. His marriage to Pharaoh's daughter appears to have cemented a political alliance with Egypt.
xVMlb TIL When Monty Python and the Holy Grail screened at the Cannes Film Festival, firefighters came in and made everyone in the cinema go outside as there was a bomb scare. As the projector stopped the audience roared with laughter, thinking it all part of this movie.
xVWOw TIL Olympic swimming pools must be sprayed with water during diving. It’s a safety feature called mechanical surface agitation and it allows diver to determine when they should enter their rotation.