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TIL Using “House of Pizza” in a restaurant’s name is a code signifying that it is not an Italian restaurant, but a Greek restaurant serving Italian-style food.

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X00wE TIL Wells Fargo was forced by the feds to rehire a whistleblower employee that reported fraud, and pay him $5.4 million in damages.
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PQ6O TIL execution by elephant was commonly used in South and Southeast Asia for centuries because, unlike the horse, the elephant has no qualms about killing humans, and can be trained in detail: told to make the death quick and merciful (crush the head) or prolonged and painful (tear limb from limb)
wLKA7 TIL that looting of DJ equipment during a 1977 power outage in New York played a large role in the success of Hip Hop
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