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TIL that Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel for the food.

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ADj57 TIL all seagulls have a set of glands above the eyes that filter out the salt ions from their bloodstream, allowing them to drink saltwater.
ANKEx TIL that the first central bank in the US was called the Bank of North America and Wells Fargo is its current successor through several mergers after it was privatized.
4XwKg TIL about Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician born in 1815, regarded as one of the first computer programmers. She was the first to write a set of instructions - "notes" - intended to be carried out by a machine. She was a friend with Charles Babbage and other important scientists of the time.
9YJvm TIL There was an ancient kingdom in Northern Africa literally called "Pwnt."
rNQ10 TIL about Jim Corbett, a British-Indian hunter responsible for tracking and killing some of the most prolific man eating big cats in India. He later became an early proponent of the conservationist movement and encouraged fellow trackers to replace hunting with nature photography.