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TIL Chipotle only uses legs and thighs from the chicken, while the breasts are sold to Panera Bread

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mJko TIL: A POW during the Vietnam War named James Stockdale said to survive in such arduous conditions you must renounce optimism for stoicism. His optimistic fellow captives all died. Having a blindly optimistic view worsens your chances of survival. This is called ‘The Stockdale Paradox’.
OnVa TIL the Navajo have words for four genders: male, female, feminine-male, masculine-female.
E1MXX TIL the real mastermind behind the Sook Ching massacre and Bataan Death March got off scot-free by hiding out in and working for China, then returned to Japan and became a member of diet, became a spy for the CIA, and vanished in Vietnam under unknown circumstances never to be seen again
Ypjox TIL Operation Bagration, a Soviet offensive in Byelorussia that lasted between June 23 and August 19, 1944, was the largest defeat in German military history. Twenty-eight (out of 34) German divisions were wiped out, with 57,000 soldiers taken prisoner.
YpkOr TIL 'expresso' is considered an acceptable variant of 'espresso' by the Oxford English Dictionary.