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TIL of pizza farms, an educational farm where the ingredients of pizza are grown in one convenient location

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Xg8j TIL that republicans gerrymandered a district in Pennsylvania to eliminate a democratic house representative in 2002. The new district formed a finger that contained his house, but not the spot where he parked his car. He was forced to run against another democrat for representative and lost.
J1A8B TIL: 1 in 5 German parents regrets having children and would prefer to live their life without them.
4X7eg TIL on 13th October 1908 Travers Symons escaped from her escort in the Houses of Parliament, burst into the main chamber, interrupted a debate by shouting, & thus became the first woman to speak in the House of Commons. She couldn't be arrested, the police having no power in the Houses of Parliament
5JKp TIL of a study where two men ate only meat for a year and remained perfectly healthy
0dMXM TIL that Vannevar Bush had envisioned the world wide web through his memex concept.