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TIL Italian courts ruled that restaurants have to tell customers if they serve frozen food or it’s considered fraud.

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5VPWB TIL that after the Sunshine Skyway Bridge was destroyed in a collision with a freighter, the replacement bridge was designed with protective bumpers to prevent it from happening again. When a ship collided with the new bridge in 1987, the bridge was unaffected but the vessel took on water and sank.
gMweL TIL about Marco Bragadin gruesomely killed, first dragged around with sacks of stone on his back; then tied to a chair and hoisted up a Turkish flagship, then tied to a column and flayed alive, then his skin was stuffed and redressed in his military clothes, then rode on an ox around town
OoX84 TIL mahaska was a 1920s slang for gun and the origin is unclear.
KO1eB TIL of the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, where 43 people died and 74 were injured after a London Underground train failed to stop and ran into a dead end at speed
j6NJn TIL The World's Smallest Reptile was Recently Discovered and reported in 2021. Male's genitals are nearly 20% of the body length.