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TIL how platform like uber make our food more expensive. ( Spoiler: they take their cut too, not just delivery fee)

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vOvj TIL the actor who played character Random Task in Austin Powers (the parody of Odd Job from 007 films) is serving a life sentence for torture and rape.
kO4pE In Norway, there sits a literary time capsule that is slowly filling with the unread manuscripts of the world’s best authors.
R5vl4 TIL that ice makers in home freezers have a heating element to release the ice cubes from the mold
69PL7 TIL in 1987 a Japanese team of researchers discovered cavities beneath the Sphinx in Egypt, which was later confirmed by American researchers. All further examination was blocked by the Egyptian government and til this day the caverns have never been explored or excavated.
l4XK TIL If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of playing cards, you’ll end up with a sequence which has (probably) never existed before. There are 8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 different combinations.