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YpBeA TIL over a dozen restaurants in Time Square New York were sued for adding gratuity onto everyone's bill including parties that weren't 8 or more guest. Applebees, Red Lobster, and Olive Garden are a few of the places that were sued.
6EGpX TIL there was a global search to find a mate for Jeremy, a rare left-coiling snail. Because his shell coiled counterclockwise, the opposite direction of typical snails, his sex organs could not align with others. Two candidates were found but they proceeded to mate with each other instead of Jeremy.
lowkA TIL about the Marvel character Doop, an alien bean who among other things; has fought Thor to a standstill, was ready to murder Wolverine with a broken glass bottle, murdered someone with an axe and had sex with a married woman as well as the private investigator that was hired by the husband.
kJEEd Today I learned that, for a brief period from 1973 to 1974, Richard Nixon was the only living president
DQeXY TIL that the entire population of Toulon, France was temporarily evicted in 1543 so that a fleet of the allied Ottomans could winter in the city. 30,000 soldiers spent 8 months there, the cathedral was converted into a mosque, and the king had to pay them 800,000 gold coins before they would leave.