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TIL that the busiest day Dominos Pizza ever had wasn't thanks to a Super Bowl but the O.J. Simpson Bronco Chase

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pYwxZ TIL that in 1940, after the fall of France during WW2, the British Royal Navy attacked and destroyed, neutralized or captured the largest ships in the French naval fleet in order to ensure they would not fall into German hands.
b6EO7 TIL the Imperial Japanese Army killed 250,000 Chinese civilians while searching for US airmen after the Doolittle Raid,
8aRg4 TIL On average, more than 6000 cell phones are lost in Walt Disney World every year.
awKVM TIL during WWII Mounds candy bar operated a small fleet of ships that transported coconuts from the Caribbean and reported on Nazi ship movements to the US Military.
4XogJ TIL that when somebody overestimates their knowledge and abilities in an area because they don't even know how little they know, it is called Dunning-Kruger effect