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TIL in 2014, a memorial to people killed by dogs, the majority of whom were pit bulls, was mobbed by pitbull owners who prevented people from viewing the memorial with their pitbulls

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AANd TIL there is a custom in Naples called Caffè Sospeso where someone who had experienced good luck would order a sospeso, paying the price of two coffees but receiving and consuming only one. A poor person enquiring later whether there was a sospeso available would then be served a coffee for free.
KOjVE TIL the Bearded Vulture's diet is 70-90% bones and often swallows them whole
vNGr TIL A primary school in Suffolk have children raise piglets as a class which will be ultimately butchered for meat and eaten. This is to teach them a lesson on the “provenance of food.” The older children are involved in creating recipes.
KR8G TIL of a theme park in Transylvania that’s 400 feet below ground. Once a salt mine and cheese storing facility, visitors can ride a Ferris wheel, row around a lake, play mini golf, and more.
LBdd TIL Kenan Thompson was told “I was going to need two dicks for all of the women I was going to get after the movie came out” by Bill Cosby while working the film Fat Albert.