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TIL learned that Waffle House stays open 24/7/365 so reliably, even in disaster scenarios, that it's informally used by FEMA as a metric for disaster severity ("If Waffle House closes, get out of there!"). Their preparedness measures include mobile emergency generator trucks and "Jump Waffle Teams"

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mxMvv TIL That the founder of Adidas and the founder of Puma were brothers. They split up to form their own companies in 1948. They had a bitter rivalry that lasted until they died. Even today, both companies have their headquarters Herzogenaurach, Germany, the small town where both brothers grew up.
VM7bp TIL I learned about the Delft Thunderclap, an explosion in Delft, Netherlands where a gunpowder store exploded, destroying much of the city and killed Rembrandt's most promising student, Carel Fabritius and destroyed almost all of his works.
ep0k4 TIL Ted Turner was expelled from Brown University for having a female student in his dorm room.
d8onK TIL in the United States, direct manufacturer auto sales are prohibited in almost every state by franchise laws requiring that new cars be sold only by dealers.
JPE8 TIL Venus spins the opposite direction as the other planets in our solar system and may have been a drifting planet we “adopted”.