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TIL a historic Houston restaurant paid their employees salaries for 18 months while they were closed and rebuilding after a catastrophic fire.

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d8OG7 TIL Ronald Reagan appointed the first female supreme Court justice as promised in his campaign - Sandra Day O'Connor
v16BK TIL that where a girl ties her bow on her dirndl during Oktoberfest means something. To the right means they're in a relationship, to the left means they're single, in the back means they're a waitress or a widow and in the front means they're a virgin.
61J7 TIL US military suicides exceed combat deaths..
OoMKa TIL German interrogator Hanns Schraff didn't torture his American prisoners during WWII. Instead he would befriend them, take them on walks in the forest or the local zoo, and even allow one to fly a plane. He was so good that prisoners didn't realise they were revealing secret informations.
JVXQ TIL Cristiano Ronaldo funded the education of a 7 y.o. survivor of the horrific 2004 tsunami in Indonesia. The boy was found 21 days after the disaster, alone and wearing a Portuguese national football team jersey. The boy grew up to be a football player and was signed by Sporting Lisbon last year