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TIL On average, globally, pizza took longer to deliver than cocaine. 30% of people who had cocaine delivered said it arrived in less than 30 minutes, compared to 16 % who had pizza delivered in less than half an hour

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P1xae TIL that at the time of The Titanic’s sinking, a magazine story about a ship sinking from an iceberg collision in the Atlantic was out in circulation. The author of this story Thornton Jenkins Hains, was writing under a pseudonym after having been disgraced in society for involvement in a murder.
0dEOp TIL during WW2 the Nazis spent the modern day equivalent of 100 million usd to make a underground base in Poland which saw little to no use. Soon after building it they lost the war, and it is now one of the largest bat habitats in Europe.
rN00W TIL the elegant tit (Pardaliparus elegans) is a species of bird in the tit family Paridae endemic to the Philippines
lyw7 TIL if you microwave a sliced grape, it can explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.
R7J99 TIL The writer of "That 70's Show" theme song gets $70 each time the show airs, and refers to it as "That $70 Show" .