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TIL: It only costs $5000 to franchise a Chick-fil-a. Chick-fil-a will pay for land, construction, and equipment. Take home from a single store averages to about $100,000 per year.

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VKVB TIL as a teenager, Puccini stole organ pipes from his town’s cathedral and sold them to buy cigarettes. As church organist, he rearranged the music to avoid playing the missing notes
p8kw8 TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote "William Wilson", a story where doppelgangers share a name and similar traits. In the 1980s, there were 2 switch hitter, center fielders, that shared similar traits and backgrounds, playing in the MLB. Their names were William Wilson.
rNn4 TIL In September 1987, citizens in Rio De Janeiro discovered 22 tons worth of sealed 2-pound cans of marijuana washed ashore along their beaches after suspected drug smugglers ditched their cargo. Out of those cans, only 20 were ever turned into the police.
VV4Z TIL the first webcam was created to help people avoid pointless trips to the coffee room at the University of Cambridge. The camera provided a live 128×128 greyscale picture of the state of the coffee pot, which was located in the corridor just outside the so-called Trojan Room.
vP1NB TIL about the Carrington Event: in 1859 a massive solar flare spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles toward Earth, wreaking havoc on telegraph networks. Today it would stop our “modern life” for weeks.