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TIL that while some American restaurants have eliminated tipping, many have had to re-instate it after the “no-tipping” experiment failed. One restaurant lost 70% of its tipped staff. Another “couldn’t compete in the market” and was “faced with the options of raising prices […] or bailing out.”

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P9ye TIL When the battle of Stalingrad seemed lost for the Germans, Hitler expected his General, F. Paulus, to commit suicide. His response was: “I have no intention of shooting myself for this Bohemian corporal”. Paulus surrendered in Feb 2, 1943.
VBpL0 TIL between 1948 and 1950, occupied germany had no national anthem and so in many official and sporting events it was used a satirical carnival song instead, many officials from other countries stood up thinking it was the anthem. Some allies briefly feared the song was a call for revanchism.
jBYj TIL prior to WWII a Viennese psychiatrist organized a special counseling program which for the first time in years lead to zero student suicides. Later imprisoned in Nazi camps, his family murdered, he wrote in secret a book about the meaning of life which became a bestseller after his liberation
b9pgQ TIL of Black Kite 'Firehawks' which are birds that deliberately spread fires in Australia by carrying burning twigs in their beaks and talons and dropping them in other areas in order to start new fires and drive out insects and small animals so they can feed on them.
9b6r TIL that the coldest city on Earth is Yakutsk in Russia, with the coldest temperature ever recorded being −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F) and average of −38.6 °C (−37.5 °F) in January.