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TIL, that journalists and open-source intelligence enthusiasts have tracked late-night pizza orders around the Pentagon as an unofficial predictor of geopolitical events.

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J1DEm TIL Sing Sing Prison is located 30 miles up the Hudson River from New York city. This is where the expression "getting sent up the river" comes from.
Xey6 TIL during the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi doctors defended the experiments they performed on concentration camp inmates by citing experiments performed by American researchers who had fatally infected prisoners with cholera and malaria.
oRDoY TIL St. Lawrence was roasted to death on a hot gridiron. In defiance he said "Turn me over - I'm done on this side!". He is now the patron saint of Comedians and cooks.
R5xv6 TIL that the shape of a Pringle is called "hyperbolic paraboloid", and has its own equation.
N7AbM TIL: Boxxy does voice acting and even helped make an RPG, BoxxyQuest: The gathering storm!