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TIL that every day, Sikh temples are required to provide a free, hot meal to anyone regardless race, gender, or creed.

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grPJ7 TIL we know leafcutter bees are at least 30 million years old because we’ve found fossilized leaves that age with the telltale circles leafcutter bees make.
Mer5W TIL that when a man from Fort Benton, Montana died in 1936, his body was taken east by train to be buried by his family. His dog, Shep, waited at the station and greeted every incoming train for six years, expecting his master to return on board one day. Shep was hit and killed by a train in 1942.
6VL8 TIL William Shatner said that Reddit was the first “mainstream site” that allows “racists and other hate mongers to group, congregate, incite and spread their hatred”.
Yp7bv TIL that John Cleese once defaced his school's grounds "as a prank, by painting footprints to suggest that the statue of Field Marshal Earl Haig had got down from his plinth and gone to the toilet"
8arDZ TIL that Decision theory is the study of an agent's choices. Decision theory can be broken into two branches: normative decision theory, which analyzes the outcomes of decisions or determines the optimal decisions given constraints and assumptions.