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TIL the food court at Costco makes so much money selling pizza to hungry shoppers, it's ranked as the 14th largest pizza chain in the US - even beating out California Pizza Kitchen, among others

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Zp01Y TIL of the Broken-backed war theory. A form of conflict that could happen after a massive nuclear exchange. Assuming no side has been annihilated, one or all of the parties continue fighting entirely with munitions on hand at the start of the war.
g5WD TIL the GPS cordinates that lead to Walts burried money in BREAKING BAD actually, in real life lead to ABQ studios in Albuquerque NM where BREAKING BAD was filmed. They wanted to be sure the cordinates didn’t lead to somewhere people might go think there could be burried treasure.
QBG9 TIL firing squads issue a blank cartridge to either all-but-one, or one-but-not-all, of the members. No member of the squad is told beforehand if he is using live ammunition. This is called the “conscience round” which allows each member to believe they did not personally fire the fatal shot.
JNEj TIL Thrasyllus of Mendes commented on Caligula saying he had “no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae”. After he became emperor, Caligula constructed a temporary bridge across the Baiea using ships as pontoons and rode his horse across.
7oxb TIL: Harmonix codenamed their Rock Band Network “Nickelback” while it was in development so if someone found out about it, nobody would care