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TIL of the Restaurant of Mistaken Orders where all of the wait staff are living with dementia. They may get your orders wrong but the restaurant promotes a sense of openness and understanding.

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NOXQ TIL of Cardinal von Galen, one of the first public figures to stand up to Hitler. For opposing the killing of the disabled, Hitler planned to kill him after the War.
MBy7 TIL that in 1945 Walt Disney and the surrealist Salvador Dali attempted to make a short film together.They never finished it, but in 1999 Roy E. Disney found the film (while making fantasia 2000) and completed it.
e0jab TIL about the confederate cornerstone speech, a speech given by the Confederate Vice President at the beginning of the war, outlining the cornerstones of the Confederate government, including the ideals of racial superiority.
J1B44 Today I learned that the Fairy Fountain music in the Legend of Zelda games is in fact a rearrangement of the Water Land music from Mario 3.
nWlad TIL that in 1536, Panna Dai, a nursemaid of the Heir of Mewar, sacrificed her son to save the Heir’s life. She made her son sleep on the Heir’s bed and covered him so that the assassin would think that he assassinated the Heir. It worked.