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TIL Brussel Sprouts aren’t the “top” of the plant

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P0jn TIL Two Libyan pilots were given ordered to bomb civilian protesters or face execution upon refusal. Instead flew to Malta and applied for asylum.
Bgv0b TIL in 1990, a Domino's Pizza owner in Washington DC noticed a record-breaking number of pizza orders from the Pentagon leading up to the Invasion of Kuwait. Similar increases happened leading up the Panama Invasion and Grenada Invasion; the intelligence leakage became known as The Pizza Meter
m1eMM TIL that in the 2008 movie 'The Women' no men appear on screen. They're just referenced.
D14er TIL Titanic's engines burned 600 tons of coal per day. 176 men worked around the clock to shovel it in by hand. 100 tons of ash was also ejected into the sea each day.
VBYZZ TIL that the Big Bang theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest