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TIL that the first self serve restaurant opened in 1896! It consisted mostly of vending machines.

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woYEY TIL time seems to only flow in one direction at the macroscopic level but that is not the case at the microscopic level. This phenomenon is known as the "arrow of time paradox" and it's one of the many unsolved problems in physics.
RJA4 TIL in 1933 America’s most decorated Marine, General Smedley Butler, told the House of Representatives that wealthy businessmen tried to recruit him in a coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and install a fascist government.
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