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TIL that there’s a chef dedicated to recreating the burgers from Bob’s Burgers

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NPYQ TIL that Target (yes, that Target) runs a state of the art crime lab, one of only twelve accredited private labs in the world, on its corporate campus in Minnesota. It often provides outside assistance to law enforcement at no charge and has been involved in a number of high profile cases.
XE4wD TIL Paleontologist Dale Guthrie once happened upon a well preserved 36,000 year old bison frozen in ice. He and his team thawed it out and proceeded to eat it.
dDKyd TIL there's an Irish Pub at base camp Mt. Everest that's dubbed the "highest and most remote Irish pub in the world"
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Y7W67 TIL that when Victor Hugo died in 1885, some Parisian brothels reportedly closed for a day to mourn his passing.