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TIL there is a healthy fast food chain in LA that is priced on a sliding scale making meals cheaper in lower income communities in order to compete with McDonald's and provide a healthy alternative

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bdoN TIL of Roy Benavidez. He volunteered to be dropped into a firefight against 1000 NVA to save his 12 man team, armed with only a knife. He was wounded 37 times in a 6hr battle, believed dead, and was placed in a body bag. He saved his mates, survived, and received the MoH.
4gLa TIL Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury were going to make a collaborative album but Freddie quit because Jackson demanded his pet llama come into the studio with him.
bk07 TIL Babies as young as 9 months know what makes a friend,new research suggests. A study conducted in January in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, shows that babies who are too young to talk still have a set of abstract expectations about the social world.
rRnX0 TIL saying “ahoy-hoy” was at one time the preferred way to answer the phone.
8arWb TIL in North Carolina there is a small sign marking the location where a B-52 broke apart midair in 1961, dropping two nuclear weapons below. One was set to ARM.