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TIL 12 Americans died during the Hiroshima atomic bombing.

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aKKA TIL in 2004 a customer in Las Vegas walked into an In-N-Out and ordered a 100x100. That’s 100 beef patties and 100 slices of cheese, which the restaurant obliged as until then they accommodated orders of any size at extra cost. Since then In-N-Out changed it’s rules and capped the burger at 4x4.
b9WKZ TIL there's a word «mamihlapinatapai» that describes the situation when two people look to each other, wishing that the other would initiate something that they both desire but which neither wants to begin
8eMBG TIL A German man spent years in a mental institution for claiming that his ex-wife and the bank where she worked were involved in a massive money laundering scheme. The accusations turned out to be true, and the plot to have him committed was part of a conspiracy to silence him.
gMD7L TIL having expulsed Mexican migrant workers in 1965, a program was created to replace the missing labor with American youth. 3300 teenagers ended up picking crops as a summer job. The conditions were so bad that within 2 weeks 200 had quit and many held strikes. The program was never tried again
Wk68d TIL that Osama Bin Laden had a Steam account, Batman Gotham Knight and FF7 among many other such items