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TIL in 2015 people spent more money at restaurants than on groceries for the first time ever according to the United States Commerce Department.

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4XOWR TIL when James Brady (the White House Press Secretary paralyzed by a gunshot wound from the Ronald Reagan assassination attempt) died in 2014, it was ruled a homicide 33 years after the incident.
wPOY TIL Magnum condoms are actually designed for most men to fit into and their purpose is to provide an ego boost
woop8 TIL about Khuk Khi Kai, a jail in Thailand which was designed so that prisoners were subjected to a regular shower of chicken poop
6EPaJ TIL crows in urban Japan and the United States have innovated a technique to crack hard-shelled nuts by dropping them onto crosswalks and letting them be run over and cracked by cars. Then they retrieve the cracked nuts when the cars are stopped at the red light.
wLd0o TIL that in 1910, before the rise of cigarettes, Alton Ochsner was told to watch an autopsy of a lung cancer patient because he might never see the disease again. Later, Ochsner's clinic would help prove the link between smoking and cancer.