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TIL Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or volunteer in exchange for their meal.

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yQEJJ TIL about Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, a Superbowl-winning NFL player and MD who sat out the 2020 season to work in a long-term care home
vPgbD TIL of Stigler's law of eponymy: "no scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer". Stigler himself attributed the law's discovery to sociologist Robert K. Merton, ensuring that the law itself would be an example of itself.
r5J4 TIL Animal Planet made a fake documentary about the existence of mermaids… twice
jND9M TIL that in 2009 Icelandic engineers accidentally drilled into a magma chamber with temperatures up to 1000C (1832F). Instead of abandoning the well like a previous project in Hawaii, they decided to pump water down and became the most powerful geothermal well ever created.
xV4gD TIL that Aramaic -the language spoken by the historical Jesus- is still being spoken as a mother tongue in a small village in Syria.