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TIL that a 1996 federal law allows restaurants to donate leftover food without getting sued, and that nobody has ever filed a lawsuit against a restaurant over donated leftovers

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BAbb TIL: When it first came out, the film “Mr Smith Goes to Washington” was criticize by Washington Insiders for depicting the Senate as corrupt. Yet it was banned in countries like Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union for showing that Democracy works.
oB0QY TIL Minecraft Is Used As A Teaching Tool In Schools
vPEOL TIL Peter Pan should be out of copyright, but the UK made an exception to the law so a children’s hospital can still receive royalties from it
0d8wM TIL that North and South Korea share only one holiday: August 15, the day in 1945 when Korea became independent from Japan after 35 years as a colony.