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TIL there are pizza farms where all the ingredients to make the pizza they sell is grown on the farm.

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Z8pPR TIL that when a production of Pygmalion had changed the ending, the man responsible for the change told Shaw "My ending makes money; you ought to be grateful," to which Shaw replied, "Your ending is damnable; you ought to be shot."
d8XX9 TIL that thanks to a substance called "Snus", the rate of daily smokers in Sweden has been reduced to 5%
Y7Pyd TIL that there is a form of moonshine popular in the slums of Nairobi called chang'aa which is intentionally cut with chemicals like embalming fluid and jet fuel to make it more potent. Chang'aa literally means "kill me quick."
MdAb TIL the owner of Macy’s died on the Titanic. He refused to get in a lifeboat before women and children, and his wife refused to leave without him. She said, “I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die, together.” They were last seen standing on the deck, arm in arm
pALe TIL There is a restaurant in Pittsburgh, the Conflict Kitchen, that only serves cuisines from countries that the US is in conflict with. When they started serving Palestinian food, they received death threats.