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TIL The world's biggest kitchen is often considered to be the kitchen at the Sri Sai Sansthan Prasadalaya in Shirdi, Maharashtra, India which uses state of the art technology to prepare free meals for over 40,000 people on a typical day and sometimes more than 70,000 for special festivals.

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p8xWA TIL that the Concorde airplane flew so fast, if you left London (or Paris) in the evening flying west towards New York, to the passengers in the plane, the sun would actually appear to begin rising again shortly after reaching cruising speed. The plane flew faster than the Earth's rotation.
Q9kk TIL there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called ‘Da Jesus Book’
j6N5E TIL that millions of years ago Antarctica was once a rainforest that dinosaurs inhabited
ZNvv TIL The PlayStation 2 was so popular, it was produced up until the month before the PlayStation 4 was announced.
VMPpp TIL of the Scholomance, a school of black magic located in Romania. According to legend, the teacher of the school was the Devil. Upon graduation, the Devil would select one of the students to be the Weathermaker, a dragon rider responsible for controlling the weather.