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TIL of "Enoteca Maria" a Staten Island restaurant that only employs grandmothers to cook traditional food from their homelands

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R79n7 TIL the last line of the psalm which the Boney M hit song Rivers of Babylon is based on, is "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stone"
Lkkgv TIL: Matches used to be made with toxic white phosphorus. It was so toxic workers often contracted "Phossy Jaw," causing their face to rot away and their bones to literally glow in the dark.
YpnQW TIL of "knocker-uppers" a profession with the sole purpose of waking people up in the morning, later to become obsolete by alarm clocks.
neG9P TIL: The first synagogue built in America was built by philanthropist and slave trader, Aaron Lopez.
VM0O4 TIL Many polls and surveys are not interested in your response. They are not polls at all. Instead they are marketing pushes disguised as polls that steer your thinking through manipulative questioning. Its called "push polling".