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TIL the last webpage Anthony Bourdain viewed was a prostitution service before killing himself, and that he frequently solicited prostitutes

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PY6bg TIL Swedes have a national weekly eating plan. Thursdays are traditionally pancakes and split pea soup.
xeyD TIL in 1987 a lone Chilean Flamingo named Pink Floyd escaped from a zoo in Salt Lake City and lived alone in the wild in Utah on the Great Salt Lake, surviving off brine shrimp. He was last seen in 2005, but others have claimed they’ve spotted him since.
x6pDD TIL Thermonuclear bombs are mostly styrofoam. The radiation channel is filled with polystyrene foam, a crucial component for the device's function, making up the bulk of its volume
korB TIL that candles lit in microgravity (i.e., space) burn not with a yellow, tapered flame, but with a spherical, nearly invisible blue flame
RVQ7 TIL that when Nazis came to a Jewish Nobel Laureate’s home, a fellow chemist hid his (and another laureate’s) gold medals by dissolving them in a beaker that the Nazis ignored, then years later he recovered the gold and had it recast back into the medals.