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TIL At Applebee’s, almost no actual cooking is done: premade food in plastic baggies is heated in microwaves and dumped onto plates.

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D75v TIL in in 1963, Lego started producing sets of smaller bricks specifically for adults (architects/industrial designsers) called Modulex.
QNKV9 TIL that non-naked mole rats do exist.
VNLm TIL that an archaeologist and biblical scholar suggested that Jesus is a mushroom. “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient ‘sex-and-mushroom’ cult.”
EWnW TIL that a feminist dressed up as a man for 18 months and discovered for herself that women have more privilege than men
1DJ4 TIL that after an unsuccessful attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1874, workers were hired to place the coffin further underground. They could not find a suitable area at first, so they simply set the coffin on the ground and covered it with lumber, disguising it as a woodpile for two years.