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TIL there is a top rated restarant in NYC where the maître d’ will Google the name of every guest that is expected to arrive to help them customize the experience

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BWrd TIL That musicians have the legal right to carry their instrument on board a plane without an additional baggage charge. (Pages 74-75)
gMXZ8 TIL of the letter written by a slave named Jourdon Anderson who was freed from slavery after the Civil War, in response to his former master Patrick Henry Anderson's request for him to return to his old plantation and save his ailing business.
gMkk4 TIL Saturn's rings are estimated to only be 10-100 million years old. Saturn likely did not have rings when the dinosaurs were alive.
RdZ6 TIL that in the Netherlands there are dozens of public facilities where you can bring recreational drugs including weed, cocaine and ecstasy to test if they are safe
GLOQ TIL Salvador Dalí avoided paying restaurant tabs by drawing on his checks, assuming that they would not want to cash in such valuable art pieces. He was usually right.