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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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R7PJj TIL the song "Sultans of Swing" was inspired by Mark Knopfler witnessing a shoddy pub band playing to a small, drunken crowd. At the end of their set, the singer finished with “Goodnight and thank you. We are the Sultans Of Swing.”.
GGnG TIL in 1932 Australia waged a war against Emus, known as the Great Emu War, but found that machine guns were ineffective at killing the birds.
ved8 TIL paraplegics and quadriplegics often cannot sweat below the level of the spinal cord injury. They have to actively control their body temperature
nKBo TIL During 2012 Missouri drought, a man named John Sam Williamson hauled about 3000 gallon of water from Missouri river to keep a 350-years old tree alive. The tree sits on the farm his family has run for six generations.
Bgx4k TIL that the world's largest uncut diamond, the "Cullinan", was found in South Africa in 1905 and weighed 3,106 carats. It was eventually cut into nine separate stones, two of which are part of the British Crown Jewels.