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TIL Pizza Hut donates all of its mis-ordered food to the poor

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A4Xx TIL that for the last 10+ years, 2 disabled men in China, one without arms and the other without sight, have been planting trees together and have so far planted more than 10,000.
R5mrj TIL New York State contributed about 465,000 soldiers to Union armed forces during the American civil war more than any other state. Over 50,000 of them died. The highest of any northern state
ANWAw TIL Upton Sinclair, author of "The Jungle", was the Democrat nominee for governor of California in the 1934 election
jmvp TIL Japanese police will get huge futons and roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down
wL86P TIL: NYC Central Park cost more than Alaska. New York State legislature paid about $7.4 million dollars for 843 acres starting 1853. A few years later in 1867, the US bought the 600,000 square miles of Alaska for $7.2 million