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TIL that a pie "à la mode" is a pie served with ice cream.

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Br05D TIL about Fort Jefferson, abandoned since 1906, a huge hexagonal fort occupying nearly an entire island in the Dry Tortugas off Florida; though never finished, it is the largest brick masonry structure in the Americas.
5A18 TIL that a Tennessee Death Row inmate wished for his last meal to be a pizza for a homeless person. Prison officials refused to honor his request and enraged witnesses paid for $1,200 worth of pizza for hundreds of homeless people in response.
akOL TIL that Phaistos Disc, discovered by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 in the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, the disc is made of fired clay and contains mysterious symbols that may represent an unknown form of hieroglyphics.
VMYYG TIL about Argument from poor design, an argument against the existence of a creator God, based on the reasoning that a powerful and benevolent God would not create organisms with suboptimal designs that can be seen in nature.
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