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TIL certain Panera Bread cafés are “pay-what-you-want” for food.

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D1epv TIL : we finally developed a new steel alloy as light as titanium!
oDL7 TIL that if a Belgian family has seven sons or daughters in succession, the king/queen becomes godfather/godmother of the child and it receives royal gifts. This still happens a few times per year.
N7rrb TIL Bobbie the Wonder Dog covered 2,551 miles on his own to return home to Oregon after he was lost. He returned mangy, dirty, and scrawny, with his nails worn down to nothing and seemingly walked the entire distance, swam rivers, and crossed the Continental Divide during the coldest part of winter.
VD8D TIL if the federal government replaced the $1 bill with the $1 coin (and the US population accept the non paper currency), it would save the government approximately $184 million a year, or $5.5 billion over 30 years
nWjdP TIL the Guinness Book of World Records originated from an argument over the fastest game bird in Europe.