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TIL of St. Peter Stiftskulinarium, a restaurant in Austria that's believed to have been open since 803 making it the oldest still active restaurant in the world. Its clientele are believed to have included Christopher Columbus, Johann Georg Faust, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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e8a6 TIL that ‘Game of Thrones’ author George R.R. Martin still uses WordStar 4.0, a word processor application that was released in the mid-80s and runs on DOS to write all his novels.
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9O87 TIL that in 1977, a man attempted to commit suicide by jumping in front of the NYC subway. He survived but was injured, and then received $650,000 in a settlement because the subway operator had “not stopped fast enough”.
N7RNe TIL a Canadian 'Scared Straight' guard once took a teenager into a 'rape room' where several inmates assaulted him sexually. The officer then laughed and threw him to a wall, saying "Thats what happens to little fuckers like you".