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TIL people occasionally find containers of butter in peat bogs that are hundreds of years old

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nWKyP TIL that a restaurant chain in Missouri and Alabama is known for throwing bread rolls to its customers. In 2015, they were sued by a customer who claimed to have suffered permanent eye damage from a thrown roll. The restaurant admitted it was not the first time such a thing had happened.
aOnM TIL that in 2009, several lenders were caught raising interest rates, lowering credit limits, and even damaging the overall credit scores of customers who shopped at thrift and low cost retailers, based on the assumption that they were struggling financially.
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