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TIL they eat what is known as “Fairy Bread” in Australia and New Zealand, which consists of slices of white bread topped with butter or margarine and colored sugar sprinkles.

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0dmKR TIL in 2005 graffiti artist David Choe was offered $60,000 to paint murals at Facebook headquarters. He chose to take the compensation in stock. Eventually being worth more than $200,000,000.
R7lXa TIL light bulbs in the New York City subway system screw in "backwards" (i.e. with left-handed threads) so people won't steal them to use at home.
JWNj TIL that multivitamins have been found to have “no overall benefit”. This is based on several meta-analyses, authoritative reviews, and expert panel reports.
lLJ7 TIL Brendan Hufford, founder of kids martial arts company OK Kimonos, once held a clothing drive for poor children in Brazil that raised $3,000 and 100 uniforms. He didn’t donate any of the uniforms or money to the charity, but promoted his business as doing such.
nW6r9 Today I learned of Baarle-Nassau, a town in the Netherlands which has 22 exclaves of Belgium in it, some of which have exclaves of the Netherlands in them