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TIL Susannah Mushatt Jones: World's oldest person says that she eats bacon every day

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8NAa TIL ‘peperoni’ is the Italian word for 'bell pepper’ and if you order a 'peperoni pizza’ in Italy, you will get a pizza with sliced bell peppers on it.
wLnyo TIL: The Great Whiskey Fire of Dublin in 1875 was when 5000 barrels of whiskey ignited and flowed into the streets. 13 people died that day, but not from burns or smoke inhalation. They died from alcohol poisoning after trying to drink it all.
aAVM TIL that Elvis Costello once drunkenly referred to Ray Charles as a “blind, ignorant nigger”. Charles forgave him, saying “drunken talk isn’t meant to be printed in the paper.”
wooAW TIL that Whoopi Goldberg has a fear of flying and only travels by tour bus because she witnessed a mid-air plane collision take place in San Diego back in 1978. This famous plane crash is known as PSA-182.
xVDLD TIL that the University of Chicago economists used to propose a plan, dubbed The Chicago Plan, to limit the power and independence of the Federal Reserve. This plan was drafted during the wake of the Great Depression